| This may be OT and a bit ranty...my apologies: I can't speak for Coursera, but Udacity would be much better if they didn't continue to muck with the platform as you are taking the course. Seriously - things break all the time, then get fixed, etc; last big thing that happened - and I don't know exactly why, but it had to do with a large update to the site and course system I think - a big chunk of people from the second cohort (of which I am part of) in the Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree - lost access to their original mentor. That might not sound like a big deal, but it kinda was. Then, to get access restored, you had to email one particular support address, that was only posted about (IIRC) in a Slack channel. By the time I realized that the problem was more widespread than just a simple "service interruption" like everything else and emailed the support about it, they had already assigned the "max number" (whatever that is) of people to my original mentor that I had been communicating with and using since I started last year; I was reassigned a brand new mentor, who knows only what he sees about my progress, and nothing about the other communication and help I had from my former mentor. It's a bit frustrating, but I'm adjusting to it as best as possible - I'm certainly not going to let it stop me from completing the course (still going strong in the second term, just finished the second project of the UKM and now working towards the localization project) - but I'd rather have a stable platform to work with, especially since I am spending so much money on the course. /sorry about the rant |