The lectures are very poorly prepared and full of errors. This makes them difficult to follow and understand. On the other hand, the quiz in week4 is extremely easy to pass, because no effort has been made to offer plausible incorrect multiple choice answers.

The course spends too much time on knowledge that should be gathered before the course (e.g. VS Code specific information, GH Copilot information, etc). There are a number of assessments in the labs that occur prior to information from the lectures or are repeated.

The course was a good intro into the rust ecosystem for Python/JavaScript devs but I would say it does miss the spark of the rust ecosystem. Instead of makefiles, justfiles or cargo xtask should've been portrayed. The specialization doesn't have an intermediate rust course, that only focuses on the language's features. So, probably this intro course should've catered more into the advanced features? Thread safety, multithreading, async, WASM, unsafe/FFI/linking with C libs are all missed out. I intend to learn about Tokio's (a rust async crate for tasks) task management and WASM platform support. The state of web frameworks(https://www.arewewebyet.org/), gaming frameworks(https://arewegameyet.rs/), machine learning frameworks(https://www.arewelearningyet.com/), and support for WASM and WASM's scope should've at least been mentioned in the intro. Also, linking to Microsoft learn and parts of the rust book is alright, but there should've been a proper walkthrough of the rust website, covering the rustlings course and rust by example apart from the book. The first look given to the viewers into the rust ecosystem should've been much better. I am planning to take up the whole specialization, so my views might change about the intermediate/advanced features of rust not being discussed. But I strongly feel the intro course, at least in the first week should've given a much better peek into the rust ecosystem.

The first lecture of this course is simply a product presentation for GitHub Codespaces and GitHub Copilot, with some explanations of VSCode, which are very basic. I guess JetBrains has not payed the same amount of money for product placement as Microsoft did ;-) From my point of view the first lector can be completely skipt. The later lectures are more focused on actual Rust. However, many explanations are very superficial, with silly examples. The labs are boring with the same silly example code and often there is not really a coding challenge but just a task like trying out all possibilities to ignore and select certain tests. On top of this, Rust analyzer did not work correctly inside the lab containers, so even basic code completion is not available. Take one week of time and read through the official and free Rust ebook and you get much more and deeper knowledge about Rust and especially the borrowing rules, than you can get it from this course. Sorry.

The main purpose seems to be to push the AI copilot

Honestly disappointed. Too much beating around the bush instead of just explaining things.

Awful. Would not recommend. Emphasis on learning Copilot and other code assistants instead of teaching the language. Unstructured, missing content. Very low quality, any rust book is better than this course.

Save your time and rather do the MS Learning Course on Rust. It is far more comprehensive as well as comprehensible than this course. I understand that not all people are native speakers, but the instructor could at least script his videos before stumbling over terms for what seems like agonizing minutes.

There are no graded programming assignments

Pretty okay, but the lecturer is a bit fuzzy in his explainations. Quite often I've got a better explanaination from google or the rust doc for certain topics

Relevant information presented in a pleasant way. I had read the Rust book (50% or so) and jumped into this training because I had watched some videos by Noah, I wanted to progress a bit faster. Alfredo made it happen, skilled and also very good communicator. Thanks!

This course lays a very good foundation on learning a new programming language. The instructors relate their experience in learning from scratch with new technologies in GitHub copilot & code spaces.

The fundamentals of rust course is very clear, well explained, and the contents are ok for any audience, with only little experience in other programming languages. I highly recommend it.

Alfredo Deza Is an Excellent Instructor Who knows his way through Rust and How to correctly express it to Beginners. I'm Glad I took this course. Left a really positive Impact on me.

Course is very good for this how start to learn Rust. It give essential knowledge that you can start to coding.

Great hands on lessons. Thoroughly organized. I am grateful for the learning experience.

Very good. This course touch basic characteristics of Rust with an intermediate level.

It's a great introductory course to learn and start your journey in Rust.

Well-made course. Eager, to check other courses in specialization

Great starter for new Rustacians and useful refresher on topics!

Great course serving as an introduction to Rust programming.

I really liked it. I'm going to continue learning Rust.

Excellente introduction

Great introduction

Excelente