About this course: Ever wonder how Netflix decides what movies to recommend for you? Or how Amazon recommends books? We can get a feel for how it works by building a simplified recommender of our own! In this capstone, you will show off your problem solving and Java programming skills by creating recommender systems. You will work with data for movies, including ratings, but the principles involved can easily be adapted to books, restaurants, and more. You will write a program to answer questions about the data, including which items should be recommended to a user based on their ratings of several movies. Given input files on users ratings and movie titles, you will be able to: 1. Read in and parse data into lists and maps; 2. Calculate average ratings; 3. Calculate how similar a given rater is to another user based on ratings; and 4. Recommend movies to a given user based on ratings. 5. Display recommended movies for a given user on a webpage.
Who is this class for: This course is for anyone who has passed the first four courses in the Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals Specialization, who has the ability to program in Java and design algorithms. Bring together everything you’ve learned to make a movie recommendation system that you can put on the web and send to your colleagues and friends!
Taught by: Robert Duvall, Lecturer
Computer Science
Taught by: Owen Astrachan, Professor of the Practice
Computer Science
Taught by: Andrew D. Hilton, Assistant Professor of the Practice
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Taught by: Susan H. Rodger, Professor of the Practice
Computer Science
| Basic Info | Course 5 of 5 in the Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals Specialization |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Commitment | 4 weeks of study, 3-6 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
- Reading: Module Description / Resources
- Video: Introduction and Motivation
- Video: Reading and Storing Data
- Reading: Programming Exercise: Step One
- Reading: End of Module Survey
- Reading: Module Description
- Video: Average Ratings
- Reading: Programming Exercise: Step Two
- Reading: End of Module Survey
- Reading: Module Description
- Video: Filtering Recomendations
- Reading: Programming Exercise: Step Three
- Reading: End of Module Survey
- Reading: Module Description
- Video: Calculating Weighted Averages
- Reading: Programming Exercise: Step Four
- Reading: End of Module Survey
- Video: Farewell from the Instructor Team
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Nice introduction to Java and programing principles in general
Offers an opportunity to practice all the concepts learnt so far! Good job by the team!
I took the full Specialization, so I'm going write the same review for each of the 5 modules.
This is a great course, but it's not for beginners. They ask you to do a lot of coding, which is great since that's the only way to really gain proficiency. And the code they ask you to write is, in my opinion, pretty hard for someone new to coding. My hat's off to someone new to programming who makes it through the five modules.
So, thanks to Duke for putting together a great course. It was very good.
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i have taken the whole specialization . so this review is for the whole specialization in general and for the capastone in particular.
the first and the second course is very easy . but the three remaining course are a little bit tough
so you will need to struggle and persist to complete the whole specialization especially the great project .
indeed the project is extremely great . you will use all the concept you have learned through this specialization to implement this great project .... but NOTE this specialization in general and the project in particular is NOT for a BEGINNER Programmer. it is for some one who has a background in programming . but overall you will learn a lot great stuff and concepts .. so have fun and enjoy programming .