How so? And are you talking about CS373 or the Nanodegree course? Mind you, I'm kinda biased as I have taken the CS373 course, and I am currently enrolled in a

How so? And are you talking about CS373 or the Nanodegree course? Mind you, I'm kinda biased as I have taken the CS373 course, and I am currently enrolled in and taking the Nanodegree course. But I am willing to be objective about it. I can honestly say that in both, I have learned some useful things. What I have learned I believe I can build upon myself to explore new areas (for myself - maybe not in the general sense). Are the courses perfect? No. Both skim rapidly over the material - which can leave you wondering and questioning things. In many cases (labs and projects especially) you need to rely upon asking questions of others - your peers or mentors - in the forums and other outlets (I particularly like the Slack channels in the Nanodegree for this). There's more than a bit of "reading in between the lines" and needing to reference notes and prior code implemented. But that should be expected. I think both rather expect you to already have a good handle on coding, as well as experience or exposure to linear algebra, stats/probabilities, and some calculus (primarily what a derivative is and how to get one); those last two are sticking points for me (especially the latter - prior courses have at least given me a better grasp and intuition about probability - but I am not an expert at it). If you don't have those pre-reqs, you're going to have a tough time at progressing meaningfully thru the courses. I also know that neither course is a substitute for anything like a uni-level CompSci degree, or courses for that, or electrical engineering, mechatronics, machine learning, etc. If you want that kind of rigorous treatment, you're going to need to buckle down and do it. But you know what? These courses (and a few other things I've read) are inspiring me to pursue a BS, then an MS in CompSci! Which I think is great, even if it's a "late-stage" thing for me to do (I'm 43 years old, and I never went to college - my higher-learning after high school was an "associates degree" from a private tech-oriented vocational school which I am pretty sure is worthless today; I've taken a couple community-college classes, too). I plan to do this all online (I don't have the time or money to do it any other way, unfortunately). Right now, I'm not sure how these Udacity courses will fit into things, but I'm using them as stepping stones to greater possible efforts. The worst case scenario is that I use what I have learned in my hobby of DIY robotics; I've spent more for less (for instance, a year-long membership to TechShop that I only visited about 3-4 times, because it was located so far away from my house). So - I guess I am curious about your views and why you think it is "pretty bad"?