Introduction to Game Development

Intro to Game Development was an excellent course. The lecturer, does an excellent job of keeping things organized - at the start and end of every video he explains what you will be doing (or have done). He also thoroughly explains the use of best practices and why some things are done.

Perhaps it is appropriate for a beginner course, but sometimes the technical aspects are a little frustrating. When making the games you are provided with pre-built art assets and code. You then combine these in Unity. However, a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff is left unexplained: it often seems like witchcraft how everything is nicely set up for you. You don't do any active code writing in the course, although in the final week you do have a sneak peak inside the source. While the later course in the specialization has some more of this, it was a little bit annoying.

Bear in mind that Coursera has locked this course down so that if you don't pay or get financial aid, you can no longer do the quizzes or the peer-graded assignments.