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

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Post by marincounty »

uvu wrote: post #37

This is CS50! https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-har...

The Harvard computer sci course really helped me out. I didn't take the class, but put all classes on my iPod. I would listen to lectures while exercising at night.

This course really helped me understand the ever changing computer lingo. I probally should have done the lessons.

Once you get used to the vocabulary, and all the acronyms--it's all starts to fall into place.

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

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Post by scrollaway »

dhawalhs wrote: post #6
sonabinu wrote: post #2

https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog - This is the best online course I've taken. Another one I am signed up for and have already done one week of lectures (preview mode) and find very applicable is https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/

Interestingly we get a lot of mixed reviews for R Prog course: https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1713/coursera-r-programmi... Learning how to learn is the best course online that any one can take.

I've been spending the past hour on "Leaning how to learn" because of the recommendations here. I was... well, the course was definitely not quite what I expected.

What I'm seeing here is a bunch of "tricks", and a lot of "brain facts" which I would usually dismiss as pseudoscience. The course almost feels like a scam. What gives?

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

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Post by nindalf »

calvins wrote: post #36
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.

I think we'll know in a couple of weeks if its going to start on Jan 11th or not. If its not ready yet, it'll be pushed back by a month or two by mid December. That's how the previous postponements were done.

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

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Post by it_learnses »

valgaze wrote: post #45

Dr. Strang's linear algebra course is absolutely amazing: http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/videos.shtml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Strang

i watched these many years ago when i was in university. So much clarity in these! I'm eternally grateful for MIT putting these up.

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

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Post by Adam_O »

My all star lineup would be:

The Analytics Edge - https://www.edx.org/course/analytics-edge-mitx-15-071x-0

Design of Computer Programs - https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...

Justice - https://www.edx.org/course/justice-harvardx-er22-1x-0

If I had more time I would love to go through the bioinformatics specialization on Coursera. They have 2 books and an exercise site (rosalind.info). It looks like great fun.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics?utm_...

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