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

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I did Creative Problem Solving through Coursera and had a great time participating in the class projects.

There are some great tools which you can use in your everyday life to think innovative solutions to problems. The exercises were incredible fun as well.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/creative-problem-solving

Another course which I highly recommend is Learning How To Learn https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

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I enjoyed Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera. Why don't you give it a shot.

Yes, came here to say this. While I never completed the course (started OMSCS @ Ga Tech shortly after), it did cement my desire to focus on machine learning in my graduate studies. Highly recommended!

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

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Artificial Intelligence for Robotics Programming a Robotic Car

Sebastian Thrun (former leader of Google and Stanford's autonomous driving teams that won the DARPA challenge) teaches a class focusing on the basic methods in Artificial Intelligence to support autonomous vehicles, including: probabilistic inference, planning and search, localization, tracking and control, all with a focus on robotics. Programming examples and assignments apply these methods to building self-driving car like experiments.

Free course!

https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-for-r...

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Joel Spolsky did a really good one-hour primer on Excel. If you squirm at the thought of spreadsheet anything, this video is for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

Just wanted to come back and say thanks for posting this.

I don't think I've ever learnt so many great tips about a program I use quite frequently in this short of a video.

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

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post #2

Joel Spolsky did a really good one-hour primer on Excel. If you squirm at the thought of spreadsheet anything, this video is for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

Just wanted to come back and say thanks for posting this. I don't think I've ever learnt so many great tips about a program I use quite frequently in this short of a video.

I took a course on Excel in high school and was just as shocked as you. It's an excellent, highly informative video. Pass it on!

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

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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 highly recommend Kyle Simpson's Advanced JavaScript (available at Frontend Masters and Pluralsight). It's also very good. Actually, just watch everything he makes for Frontend Masters!

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

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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 i…

+1.

This was my introduction to CS/programming and is the counterexample to any claim that C makes for a terrible first language. It just needs a phenomenal lecturer.

The computing environment gets you going with Linux which avoids IDE handholding and the recitations and other helpful videos and the forums all make for a great learning experience, even for people are complete programming neophytes.

Following it up with something like Coursera's Hardware/Software Interface would be a great way of cementing the concepts.

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