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Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

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Post by otras »

thickice wrote: post #27
otras wrote: post #9

I haven't taken any paid online courses that fit within your budget, but there are plenty of high quality free courses. Depending on your experience, I'd recommend the following: - Coursera Learning How To Learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn - Harvard's Online CS50: https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2020/spring/ - MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python: https://www.…

Are there videos for MIT's distributed systems course ? Can't seem to locate it in the site.

As vikram360 pointed out, they're on the schedule page (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html). Since this is the class going on right now (Spring 2020), only a couple that have already happened have been posted so far, but I'd bet they're uploaded pretty soon after their date.

You can also find the Youtube playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_7WrbZTCODu1o_kfUMq88g

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

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Post by ArtWomb »

Currently paying C$30 per month to a Quebecois private French video tutor. And it's literally the best thing ever. Unfortuneately I can't recomennd, it's a personal connection. But I would try and find a mentor relationship in sinmilar vein. We chat almost everyday. Enough to praticer mon francais bien tot. Montreal is a hub of AI

Also current YC SUS Winter 2020 cohort. YC is magical. Its not just they revolutionized seed stage in founders favor. Or give you the blueprint for startup creation. It's the people YC attracts. The rational elite. Who don't belong anyplace else

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

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Post by otras »

minhazm423 wrote: post #32
otras wrote: post #9

I haven't taken any paid online courses that fit within your budget, but there are plenty of high quality free courses. Depending on your experience, I'd recommend the following: - Coursera Learning How To Learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn - Harvard's Online CS50: https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2020/spring/ - MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python: https://www.…

Are you saying you’ve bought more expensive courses? If so, which ones?

I took one class (computer architecture & assembly language) through Oregon State University's online CS program as a soft-requirement for some in-person classes I'm currently taking. They have the full post-bacc program (http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/academic/online-cs-postbacc), and they also do allow you to take one-off classes. Officially it says you can only take the intro classes, but I just signed up for this class anyways.

It was quite a bit more than OP's budget (total cost came to $1,200 or so), but that ended up being much cheaper than having to take the class at my current program. My employer also helped with 2/3 of the cost.

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

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Post by BossingAround »

otras wrote: post #9

I haven't taken any paid online courses that fit within your budget, but there are plenty of high quality free courses. Depending on your experience, I'd recommend the following: - Coursera Learning How To Learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn - Harvard's Online CS50: https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2020/spring/ - MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python: https://www.…

Highly unpopular opinion, I know, but I didn't find learning how to learn very useful. It might as well have been a 30-minute video, and it wouldn't lose much of its content. A lot of the content seems to be rather inspirational than educational.

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

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Post by BossingAround »

I would recommend:

- Pluralsight for dev-focused courses

- Linux Academy for DevOps-focused courses

Also, save up for certs and do some certs. Kubernetes certs (CKA, CKD) seem to be popular and difficult (which is great!), or there were some new-ish NodeJS certs. I find certs really force me to learn something and not just scratch the surface.

Just a suggestion. You can use Pluralsight and LinuxAcademy without the intention to pass certs as well.

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

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Post by slipwalker »

diehunde wrote: post #8

I think O'reilly has one of the biggest catalogs for that budget: https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ You have access to hundreds of good quality books, learning courses, conferences, etc. Now, I've seen that for the best courses fos something in particular, you'll find material from different sites, and buy them individually can get much more expensive. I've seen good courses for specific topics from Linkedin learn…

i strongly second this.

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

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Post by syrald »

atregir wrote: post #37

I recently became interested in ML and started with THE course for having a good intro into ML (Coursera's ML by Andrew Ng). That one is offered for free on Coursera and you only pay if you really want to have the certificate once you are done. That course was so interesting to me and the way Andrew Ng explains - his enthusiasm, his sincerity, the way he talks, his authority on the field mixed with his unbelievable m…

I am doing the ML course on Coursera as well, and it is clearly a must have if you want to understand Machine Learning.

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

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Post by totaldude87 »

syrald wrote: post #47
atregir wrote: post #37

I recently became interested in ML and started with THE course for having a good intro into ML (Coursera's ML by Andrew Ng). That one is offered for free on Coursera and you only pay if you really want to have the certificate once you are done. That course was so interesting to me and the way Andrew Ng explains - his enthusiasm, his sincerity, the way he talks, his authority on the field mixed with his unbelievable m…

I am doing the ML course on Coursera as well, and it is clearly a must have if you want to understand Machine Learning.

Just registered, thank you!
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