The Meta back-end development course is definitely professional, giving a detailed instruction on basics like CSS, HTML, Python, and even the front-end for full-stack experience. However, the course is dry, and some of the instructions are confusing. The labs are set up with requirements that don't allow for creativity towards the beginning, not allowing for any sort of independent thinking for a learner to comprehend the material. This feels fine until the course abruptly leaves you on your own in peer graded assignments, where the minimal direction is a harsh, sudden change for learners who haven't yet learned to do this on their own. The course instruction itself is without life, explaining the content, but in a dry and boring way. It's not necessarily wrong to do this, however, without a burst of humor, new learners may find themselves intimidated, and unable to retain information. I, and many studies have found that learners in a lively, entertaining environment find themselves with better attentiveness and retention. This uninspiring workspace doesn't well cater to that. I have no intention to say that this course is ineffective; I've learned a lot. In the future, this certificate course will prove useful to me, and it will have been worth it. This course is very educational, just not for the faint of heart. A self-paced learner may find themselves struggling to understand or keep up with the dry pace of this course.

The name of the course is "Introduction to Back-End Development" but to me, I think it's more front-end focused with HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The React lessons are more related to the back-end but there're not enough knowledges and information. Furthermore, it would be better if Meta and Coursera can include source code to make it easier for students following along.

The course title is misleading. All of the course content is on front-end web development, and even the titles and descriptions on the last week refer to the course as "Introduction to Web Development". As a front-end web development standpoint the course content would be a fine introduction to HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and React, but it is not what was advertised.

It was okay, I felt like there was very little practice in actually writing HTML and CSS files, most of it was just multiple choice and when there was a coding assessment there was a lot of hand holding; Rather than telling you what the page should look like you are given the actual code to write.

This course has helped me to understand the basics of frontend and backend more clearly. It is designed in a such way that topics are so much relevant, important & helpful. Beginner friendly & assignments are properly balanced. An industry-standard course that boosts up the skills.

This course is a nice introduction to Front-End development with a discussion on the Back-End workings of the web. It goes through topics quickly but explains the techno-babble well enough. No IDE is required since the course utilizes an online Visual Studio Code for the labs.

Nice foundation. At time extremely complicated concepts were glossed over and I don't know if I really retained or grasped them but still appreciated the variation in labs, reading and video instruction. As someone who learns by doing would labs.

Pretty good course, but i thought it sent us a lot of information very quickly, this can be kinda hard to someone new at programming, and the subtitles were wrong, what made it harder for me as a non english native to understand fully.

For me, it wasn't so informative, but it definitely helped with understanding the HTTP request and how internet works. Moreover, basic Knowledge in frontend part and the libraries used for styling (e.g., Bootstrap, React)

i must give 3 stars cause the subtitles in at least 7-8 videos are not well synchronized. this create a lot of difficulties for non native english speakers.

It was a very helpful and insightful, course. Though I am a beginner, I must say that the teaching methods made concepts easy to grasp.

Its not a full course. It will just give you a brief on how internet works and what are things required to become fullstack dev.

too much theories, not enough practice, in my opinion, it should be the other way around

This says "Introduction to Back-End" It is an Intro to Front-End course.

Awesome course but I feel like it needed more hands on lab projects.

This is a very basic course, not suited for backend only people

Need to have knowledge of front end before taking this course.

There are several concepts that are covered very superficially

There are bugs that render the course unpassable in week 2.

need more in depth teaching and be more beginner friendly

This is a very good course and simple

Cosas basicas, nada extraordinario

Its more like Front-end course...

its a 3 star not too expceptional

It want very clear for me