I've signed up for the machine learning course from coursera and the programming languages course from udacity. What have you signed up for?
Free courses offered by coursera and udacity in a variety of subjects
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 01:55 PM
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I've signed up for the machine learning course from coursera and the programming languages course from udacity. What have you signed up for?
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:02 PM
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:02 PM
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:06 PM
#5
Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:10 PM
I only spam on Thursdays in various parts of the interbutts. Some of that work must be bleeding into my regular life .When I saw the title I thought this was a spambot created topic.
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:20 PM
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:27 PM
Yeah it's the same one. I did about three weeks of that course but also dropped out. Life got a little busy. I'm going to try it again and see if I can finally learn machine learning . I've been wanting to learn it for a really long time.I was registered on the Harvard Machine Learning course (also free) but haven't been keeping up with it recently. I think it's part of Coursera so it's probably the same one you signed up for. I also registered for the Computer Vision one because I just love me some computer vision.
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:40 PM
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:49 PM
At any rate thanks for the links!
#10
Posted 22 April 2012 - 02:49 PM
I signed up for "Computer Science 101" because I am hopelessly stupid when it comes to these contraptions. Also, it starts tomorrow, so that's exciting! Maybe I'll learn how not to cry whenever my computer does weird shit.
I also signed up for "Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World" and "Greek and Roman Mythology", because I like to read, but those start later this year.
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 03:04 PM
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#12
Posted 22 April 2012 - 03:08 PM
Courses ranging in subjects from schools such as Yale, Harvard, MIT, etc are all on academic earth. MIT Opencourseware is strictly MIT courses... but they are awesome.
And Khanacademy is a fantastic project to offer free education to all online.
#13
Posted 22 April 2012 - 03:11 PM
Yes, they are administered completely online.Ate these courses provided online? As in, I attend them through the Internet right, not actual classrooms?
I like KhanAcademy quite a bit. I haven't tried MIT open courseware yet. I feel this whole free education thing is going to be huge . Just the other day, I saw a commercial for online high school education! That's amazing!I know I posted these years ago... but other good places are www.academicearth.org , MIT Opencoureware, and obviously www.khanacademy.org
Courses ranging in subjects from schools such as Yale, Harvard, MIT, etc are all on academic earth. MIT Opencourseware is strictly MIT courses... but they are awesome.
And Khanacademy is a fantastic project to offer free education to all online.
#14
Posted 22 April 2012 - 03:16 PM
I've signed up for the computer science 101, then I'll see where I can go from there
#15
Posted 22 April 2012 - 03:16 PM
It really is incredible. Now if we can get internet access to impoverished people all around the world perhaps we can make substantive changes in developing nations.Yes, they are administered completely online.
I like KhanAcademy quite a bit. I haven't tried MIT open courseware yet. I feel this whole free education thing is going to be huge . Just the other day, I saw a commercial for online high school education! That's amazing!
#16
Posted 22 April 2012 - 05:44 PM
I've signed up for the machine learning course from coursera and the programming languages course from udacity. What have you signed up for?
Signed up for the Java/HTML course.
Thanks a lot Hydro
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 05:53 PM
#18
Posted 22 April 2012 - 05:58 PM
Want logic, mythology, and genome science.
Thanks for this; I like productive things.
#19
Posted 22 April 2012 - 06:49 PM
I've already signed up for the programming courses from Udacity & I'm still looking at Coursera.
#20
Posted 22 April 2012 - 07:16 PM
Code Academy
This is an interactive step by step tutorial where they teach you the basics of programming, then gives you tasks to complete, with immediate feedback of the code you type in from within the browser. If you are stuck, you can look at the forums and there are bound to be people who have met similar problems and have their questions answered. It's great for learning simple coding concepts like while loops, functions, etc.
Stanford School of Engineering
I love Stanford. The online lecture Programming Methodology CS106A (Programming experience not a prerequisite) was the lecture that put everything I learned about programming together. If scripting a working program is like writing literature and the programming language is like English (or any other languages), this course teaches you literature first before jumping into the details of syntax and such, as the main aim of this course is to teach you how to write beautiful code. In the first few lessons, they throw you some working functions, tell you not to fret over how they are made, but just know what they are supposed to do, and then make a robot do something. In a sense, it's like giving you some ready made sentences and asking you to piece it together to form an essay. (As opposed to 'this is how you form a sentence, now go make an essay') The teacher is really good too, he makes the class lively with the funny jokes and examples he makes when teaching, and because of that, it's easier to understand some of the harder concepts.
I'm not sure if most other programming courses are taught like this because I have not checked them out, but the courses I took irl paled in comparison and I learned near 0 from them. This is the single course that made me realise I'm not so stupid that I can't get programming concepts, and made me decide to go pursue a CS/CE degree.
Free video lectures
I think this is more of a directory or some sorts, it lists all courses found online for a particular subject you are interested in. It includes a couple of youtube series that are not full fledged lectures, so it might not be your cup of tea.
#21
Posted 22 April 2012 - 07:27 PM
One thing I've always found ironic is that there is so much information on the web, but so very little of it is accessible. Plenty of universities and corporations use the WWW to share information across large distances, but much of it is locked in the "deep web" with no active hyperlinks for search spyders to crawl, and even more is locked in password protected areas.
I find a growing need for better ways to search and index the web. And don't mention Wikipedia. Wikipedia isn't an index, it's a glossary.
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 08:45 PM
#23
Posted 25 April 2012 - 09:53 PM
I've felt that since I've left college that I haven't really challenged myself other than work related topics.
#24
Posted 26 April 2012 - 02:42 AM
Do you gain anything substantive from them? I've signed up for greek/roman mythology and looks like something to keep me occupied.
I've felt that since I've left college that I haven't really challenged myself other than work related topics.
You'll probably get a printable certificate if that's what you're looking for.
#25
Posted 26 April 2012 - 05:28 AM
Are they actually "worth" anything, or is it just to say... well done, you did it?You'll probably get a printable certificate if that's what you're looking for.
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