Online course reviews written by current university students should be taken with a grain of salt. "Easy" has a special meaning to bright university students; i

Online course reviews written by current university students should be taken with a grain of salt. "Easy" has a special meaning to bright university students; it means "too many people would pass." I once had a professor introduce me to a colleague as "He was the A." He seemed to think the remark praised him as much as me. Only in primary schools do you hear a few voices saying "90% of the class should be performing at A level". I note that this reviewer didn't get full marks (perfect score) in the class. It's interesting to contrast the review, also on HN, from one who did. http://henrikwarne.com/2012/05/08/coursera-algorithms-course/ http://henrikwarne.com/2012/05/08/coursera-algorithms-course... I read another review by a current Stanford student who complained that the pre-Coursera Machine Learning class was too easy. I wonder how he did? A close friend of mine took that course and earned a perfect score. He didn't complain it was too easy; he went back to his company and started a group to apply ML to their business. Easy/hard is beside the point. The point is: students learn.