Generative AI: Elevate your Software Development Career
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Taught by IBM Skills Network Team, Ramanujam Srinivasan
Computer SciencePersonal DevelopmentInformation TechnologyData Science
About the course
Generative AI (GenAI) is now an essential skill for software developers keen to future-proof their careers. This course gives existing and aspiring developers the job-ready skills employers are looking for to build intelligent, adaptive, and secure solutions. You'll learn how to harness generative AI for code generation, software design, bug detection, testing, optimization, and documentation. You'll also explore how AI integrates into DevSecOps and continuous integration and continuous deploy
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (6 votes, 3.0★).
“While the overall course was instructive, I very much disliked the videos with the high pitched voice that felt like screaming information overloaded sentences at me like a machine gun. While I had to frequently stop to let a sentence sink in and to go back to a screen that was left too quickly after displaying the last element, oftentimes the videos also were not more than a sales pitch, saying what is or might be done without given any information on the how. The videos would be better if they went slower with more explanation. The voice over should not just read out the slides or make one complete sentence with the key words presented, there should be some elaboration on it. The final project was a failure for me, as the code generated by the AI did not work and I even could not make it work from the given AI answers - some information was apparently missing.”
Coursera's 4.5 comes from 278 ratings. Of those, 7.6% are 1–2★.
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