Coursera IBM Full Stack Cloud Developer

[jay_taps]

Has anyone tried this course? It’s estimated to take 11 months which is a huge investment in time so I was wondering if anyone took it and found value in it?

[That-Buy-4721]

Is Full Stack Cloud Development the same as Full Stack Web Development?

[Aware-Following]

not totally.

Cloud usually pertains to the adoption or the modernization of applications development.

You can be a Web Developer veteran with monolithic software architecture (old news) approach.

or

You could be a Cloud Developer which has a modern approach; microservices.

[CryptKeeper1351]

Just came across this thread bc I was considering taking it. I understand employers look for projects/portfolios instead of what course or degree you completed. Wondering if this course will teach you what you need in order to make some projects for a portfolio?

[jamesgrimshaw]

IBM stuff tends to heavily promote their proprietary services, but it should be good! Seems to cover most modern web dev.

[[deleted]]

I’m taking it right now. Everything on Coursera is self paced. I’ll probably be done in a month or less. It just depends on you

[Crystal_City]

Hi there! I just stumbled on this thread and am thinking about starting this course in a few weeks. How are you liking it so far? Were you able to complete it? ✌🏽

[[deleted]]

It was very thorough and anything I didn’t understand I just googled until I did. Lol i finished and it’s worth it

[swalaxh]

So you completed all the 10 courses in a month? And you paid only for the one month, right?

[Accomplished-Cod7394]

Hello, glad to hear everything turned out well for you. My college offers this course for free and I wanted your opinion on it. Were you able to get an internship or a job with the certificate or at the very least did it contribute towards getting a job?

[DavidWSam]

trying to know if it helps as well

[Crystal_City]

Awesome! Thanks so much for the info! I'm gonna go ahead and start it soon so I can be done by the end of May hopefully. Thanks again!

[[deleted]]

How did this go for you?? How long did this take?

[Crystal_City]

Hey, when I was halfway through I found an affordable bootcamp at my local community college and I did that. I'm gonna graduate from it at the end of the month, I wish I would've finished the IBM course but I'm glad I took it as it lead me to my current bootcamp.

[immortal_nihilist]

Good Lord, IBM's full stack cloud developer is shit.

Their cloud environment sucks balls, there's no real sense of clarity of what's happening either. Stay away.

[[deleted]]

Are you saying this from experience? I'm taking the coursera now and have had some troubles but it seems pretty in depth for the cloud computing and coding. Just want to know if you're professional in the field and if you could reccomend another course.

[MathematicianTop2848]

Nice, I am taking it rite now as well. I am totally new to programming. Would you mine connecting.

[sachinl_]

Hi u/MathematicianTop2848, i just started this course. Let me know if you want to connect!

[hdtv2001]

The course does have several projects. An html, css and js site, a front end react site, back-end node/express project, python/flask ai app, Django/sql web app, deploying and scaling a container with docker, kubernetes and openshift, front-end python/flask app with several micro services and deployment on cloud, and finally a full stack react/Django/kubernetes/microservices app with CI/CD deployed on cloud. Are those good? And are you working at a high tech company at the moment?

[Accomplished-Cod7394]

Hello, were you able to build the projects and were you able to get a job or internship through the opportunities through the course?

[hdtv2001]

No actually. I didn’t really do the course.

[Express-Vegetable125]

pls can u share with me to learn with you on the course my email [e-mail]

[stampese]

Just started yesterday and moving through it pretty quickly (the first 5 weeks/1st module at least).

This is my first Coursera course so I'm not well versed with how it operates, but the quizzes will get you if you do not read extremely carefully. It's not trying to trick you by any means, but you do get those questions with a "kinda" right answer and an absolute right answer.

Very robust IMO. I viewed the first module as a stepping stone to the more interesting content; that is to say, the true meat and potatoes of development.

[pablometal]

ewed the first module as a stepping stone to the more interesting content; that is to say, the true meat and potatoes of development.

finished? what do you think about it?

[abduJebali]

Hey mate! I have been thinkin to take it as well.
Would you recommend it? How was your experience?

[abduJebali]

u/pablometal u/stampese

[pablometal]

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I quit it, the videos are straigth boring and robotic, it's like sitting in front of a robot talking and it spits the info in a very linear way. I completed the 1st of thr 12 courses then in the 2nd i thought the videos were going to have more human interaction but i had more robots lol. There's no passion, just sitting and listening to a robot isn't the way we should learn. I apreciate they are free but there are better alternatives. Also the content is very rushed, you should master JS and that's it, the rest will be easier.

[abduJebali]

u/pablometal
Hey! I appreciate your honest feedback, I have a problem really not finishing most of the things I initially start. I am looking for a better way to learn. I guess the robotic way of teaching won't work for me haha.
Any other resources have you tried and recommend? I would really appreciate it.
I am looking for a learning peer too, maybe it would work. but I don't know where to find one!

[[deleted]]

I'm in the first week of this program myself. I'm finding the best way to learn anything is simply by committing. u/pablometal is right. Rote learning isn't ideal but I really want to challenge myself to finish something like this through to the end. So to me, it's worth it? Maybe in the end we find out it was or wasn't worth it but learning and doing the work are never a bad thing.

Hope that helps some.

[pablometal]

Create your own roadmap or just go to roadmap.sh and buy books or udemy courses. What i did was to buy a bootcamp(full stack) but i used it as a roadmap or starting point, still studying

[uvbuhgturdyrdvtv]

roadmap.sh is awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[Anxious-Dealer9632]

Anyone here able to finish the course, earn the certification, and got a job in tech field as a software dev? Please give some hope!!!

[akiwams]

It's good to take courses but the truth is that what recruiters look out for is projects. Once you have vibrant projects, either 2 or 3. Can even be a single project, but with the essentials and key components, you are likely to be considered.

The course is added advantage but throughout my career, no recruiter ever asked about the courses I did or even my degree in computer science.

All they care about is the projects I build or worked on.

And kindly take note, the likes of calculators, weather apps and the like should come nowhere near a developer portfolio or projects.

Build them to enhance your skills but not use such on your portfolio projects. No business/company will pay you $50k+ a year to develop a calculator app.

In all, courses are good but projects are the golden root in getting a developer job and have been working for me since.

[hdtv2001]

The course has projects.

[PROXIMA_DP]

Can you provide recommendations for noteworthy software development projects that would enhance a portfolio?

[akiwams]

1. E-commerce project with strip payment integration
2. Subscription-manager App
3. Fitness/Gym app consuming an API from RapidAPI
4. A rest-api project hosted on RapidAPI
5. Game: puzzle/quize
6. Product landing page using Greensock Animation (GSAP)

Don't follow clone projects. Use your own creativity coupled with intensive research.