Ask HN: What's your favorite online course? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by mrestko » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:08 AM UTC

As a medical student, I though the Coursera course on Clinical Problem Solving was quite good: https://www.coursera.org/course/clinprobsolv

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by omilu » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:08 AM UTC

sicp is the best programming course hands down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PLB63C06FAF...

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by glennos » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:08 AM UTC

Paid, but I got a lot of this course for learning Ruby/Rails https://www.gotealeaf.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by kregasaurusrex » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:11 AM UTC

Introduction to Cryptography, by Christof Paar. His book ' Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners' also provides great insight to the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aHkqB2-46k

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by nwjtkjn » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:19 AM UTC

https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partII

I took these to prepare for first-job interviews coming out of grad school. Got an offer from a company frequently mentioned on this site, so I guess they helped.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by calvins » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:20 AM UTC

middleclick wrote: post #4

Dan Boneh's "Introduction to Cryptography". (Part 1) https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto (Part 2) https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2

+1 for Dan's crypto1. I don't think crypto2 has been taught yet via coursera, as I've been waiting to take it and have seen it pushed back several times, and I've seen others say they'd been watching it get delayed for years. It does seem that Dan has been recording videos for part 2 in 2015 though (according to one of his students), so there's reason for hope that it might happen in 2016.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by uvu » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:23 AM UTC

This is CS50!

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-har...

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by anoopelias » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:25 AM UTC

samwgoldman wrote: post #20

I haven't taken many online courses, but here are my favorites (notice a trend): Andrew Ng's ML Class - This makes the list because it is incredibly useful. I didn't have much background in the field and this class is a practical survey of ideas. Not a ton of depth, but exposes you to a lot of information gently. Daphne Koller's PGM Class - This was the most rewarding. I banged my head on a lot of this material, but…

Links,

Andrew Ng's ML Class - https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

Daphne Koller's PGM Class - https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm

Dan Jurafsky's and Christopher Manning's NLP Class - https://www.coursera.org/course/nlp

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by damian2000 » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:25 AM UTC

Engineering Software as a Service: An Agile Approach Using Cloud Computing

http://www.saasbook.info/courses

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 4:31 AM UTC

kevindeasis wrote: post #11

It has been over a year and I haven't finished it yet, but I find it the most interesting. It's Harvard's philosophy course [1] Also, intro to comp sci by Harvard's open courseware. Without these, I might've dropped out of comp sci in my second year [2] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-OxzIC6pic&list=PLvJoKWRPIu...

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