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Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?

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Post by _kyran »

CS50 https://cs50.harvard.edu/

David Malan in the best lecturer I've ever seen.

Introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming. This course teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web development. Languages include C, PHP, and JavaScript plus SQL, CSS, and HTML. Problem sets inspired by real-world domains of biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming. Designed for concentrators and non-concentrators alike, with or without prior programming experience

Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?

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Post by joshschreuder »

These are paid, and not exactly a course but the Destroy All Software screencasts are great, and cover a lot of topics like shell scripting, VIM / EMACS, testing, refactoring etc.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts

They're by Gary Bernhardt of Wat fame, which is also worth a watch for its presentation style and amusing content:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?

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Post by louisswiss »

jamesharrington wrote: post #18

This is the best javascript video i've ever seen. if you wait they do deals all the time, no need to pay $200 it will go on sale usually around $15-$20 https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/

I can second this - even though I have been programming in JS for > 5y, I feel like I have a much better understanding of what is going on 'under the hood' now. I actually bought his other course on AngularJS when I was looking to learn it, and enjoyed it/found it useful enough to immediately buy the vanilla JS course as well. Great stuff!

Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?

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Post by liadmat »

benjismith wrote: post #15

There's a really excellent course on starting a startup, from Sam Altman (President of YCombinator). http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ It was delivered as a live lecture at Stanford, with presentations by Sam Altman himself, as well as Dustin Moskovitz, Paul Graham, Adora Cheung, Peter Thiel, Alex Schultz, Kevin Hale, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Parker Conrad, Brian Chesky, Alfred Lin, Patrick and John Collison, Be…

Second this. You can also get this as a podcast, which is just as easy to learn from.
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