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Learner Reviews & Feedback for IBM COBOL Software Development Practices by IBM

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About the Course

This course is aimed at anybody interested in COBOL or or software development. In this course, you will be introduced to core practices, systems, and methodologies associated with IBM COBOL software development. You will learn about COBOL as a self-documenting language. You will review working with existing coding. This course also covers quality assurance (QA), technical support and project management....

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DR

Sep 24, 2023

Very useful and informative course with good learning material, videos, and assessments

AD

Oct 3, 2024

This is a great course for my career advancement, thank you

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By YAP K F

May 21, 2022

Some URL reading assignment are pointing to non-existing http address.

By Sergio S

Jul 1, 2022

1. I feel that the instrictor did the videos in a rush then "a reading"

2. No codding!?

3. Various readings links no longer available

By Paul M

Mar 7, 2023

Brutal. Lazy course construction. It feels like somebody had to put together this course in only a couple of hours.

No lectures, and selected readings are often just promotional materials. Sone links are incorrect or broken. Typos, bad editing, and poor sentence structure in the quizzes make answering more difficult. "Select all that apply" should not have an "all of the above" option - and the other answers should not be wrong. This course is much weaker than the other weak courses in this stream.

By Harold M

Jun 11, 2022

Poor video content

By Jason G

Feb 20, 2023

This course needs to be reviewed. Some of the links are broken, the written instructions don't match the images (lab assignments), many of the quiz questions did not match the content covered, and the text contains errors. (For example, "Preventive service planning information" is listed as " Presentative service planning information". The potential for a useful course is there, but it needs some love and attention.

By Ruddy A C

Jul 22, 2023

Very good course.. I highly recommended. It opened my eyes to a better understanding about documentation, managing bugs, technical tools and project managament utilizing top methodologies. Thank you

By Diana R

Sep 24, 2023

Very useful and informative course with good learning material, videos, and assessments

By Anele D

Oct 3, 2024

This is a great course for my career advancement, thank you

By John S P

Mar 16, 2024

Lots of reading but these are good knowledge to have

By ZAHRAH S H A Z S H A

Aug 16, 2022

ممتازة

جميلة مفيدة

وممتعه

By Edison G

Jul 29, 2022

Excelent !

By Javier D J T

Nov 4, 2024

Good

By Robert

Feb 21, 2022

Labs was missing in ISDF.

By Lucas M

Oct 4, 2024

sicneramente no se aprende mucho mas de lo que por youtuber te brindan, la traduccion en los examenes es pesima( ya que si uno lo esta haciendo en espanol debes de rellenarlo en INGLES, muy mal eso, logicamente siempre sera incorrecta para uno)!

By asts b

Jul 11, 2024

the course is terrible, barely touches the surface of any of the concepts it wants to cover, it really should be part of another course.

By Nicolas

Aug 9, 2024

The course wasn't optimal. Most of the content was linking to external, free reading.

By Massimo M

Mar 25, 2024

very short, very shallow

By Thomas A

Mar 29, 2025

Way to shallow.

By Octavia E

Mar 27, 2025

I thought the previous courses in this “specialisation” were lame. This one takes it to a whole other level. It amazes me that a course with ZERO CONTENT can be put up on Coursera. What amazes me even more is that IBM endorses this mockery. Module 1 is "say hello", module 6 is "say goodbye". The remaining modules consist of several "lessons", which in turn are made up of: - 1-2 videos which are between 15 and 50 seconds long, where a glitchy text-to-speech reads a couple of headlines that are allegedly covered in the module (for module 1, it goes something like "In this module you will learn how to: - blah - Introduce yourself (sic) - blah"); - a link to an external resource (the "module reading"), which, more often than not, is not found, other times is behind a paywall, and is often a commercial product’s landing page, popular science writing, or some kind of online tutorial of questionable trustworthiness and poor English spelling; - an ungraded quiz with questions that are often not covered anywhere in the module (i.e., in the external reading, when it is accessible), about outdated products, or wrongly phrased, expecting inaccurate answers or not accepting the correct answer. A blank or supposedly wrong answer to one of the questions will get you the "right" answer in the form of a preposterous recommendation to "revisit the [...] lesson to learn that [expected answer]". The module ends up with a graded quiz, which consists of all the lessons' ungraded quizzes merged together, and a final 10-15 seconds video where the text-to-speech reads the announced modules headlines again. Is this really the best we can expect from IBM? Has Coursera lowered the bar to such an extent since I last took a real, top-level, demanding, specialisation?

By Deleted A

Jun 25, 2023

The material in this course is extremely important, but the structure of this course leaves a lot to be desired. All of the videos are extremely short - typically a minute or less - and I get the impression that the entire course is meant to be delivered in more of a structured face-to-face environment given how much emphasis there is on group discussion. I flagged numerous errors in the quizzes during the course, and a couple of the answers contradict project management materials in other sources such as the PMBOK.