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

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Post by chickenboot »

tagawa wrote: post #51

It's not technical but the best I've taken so far is Songwriting on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/songwriting Presented by Pat Pattison from Berklee College of Music, I started the course thinking who is this guy? By the end I was hanging off his every word. Even if you've never thought of writing a song it opens your eyes to the talent (and tricks!) in the music business.

Seconded. I too was hanging off his every word, and learned from this course that Roget's Thesaurus is arranged in a completely different way to a regular thesaurus (by category/association rather than alphabetically) [1], and so much about how a good song is structured.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roget%27s_Thesaurus

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

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Post by geomark »

truncate wrote: post #73

For statistics I really liked Data Analysis and Statistical Inference by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel. I think I understood statistics beyond formulas after I took this course. Apart from typical pen and paper problems, you also get programming exercises in R. https://www.coursera.org/course/statistics

+1 I recently completed this course. It's really quite good.

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Post by eliben »

iraphael wrote: post #22
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…

NLP has been on my watchlist for a semester now. No word on when future sessions will happen. I'm about to give up on that and just watch the old videos. Too bad I won't get the assignments :/

Can't you still do the old assignments?

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Post by estefan »

Can anyone recommend a course on business organisation? I'm planning on starting a startup and want to round out my business knowledge as to who I should hire.

I want to stay in charge of tech & strategy while letting someone else manage finance, hr, etc. I couldn't find a single one that actually explains what a CEO does on coursera/edx/novoed.

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

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Post by estefan »

manish_gill wrote: post #68

If anybody has a good course on Compilers except the old one that's on Coursera (which was decent but honestly the instructor wasn't amazing at holding my attention), that would be awesome. :)

Just watch it at double speed and he only needs to hold your attention for half as long :-D - plus you really need to concentrate.

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Post by akulbe »

estefan wrote: post #115

Can anyone recommend a course on business organisation? I'm planning on starting a startup and want to round out my business knowledge as to who I should hire. I want to stay in charge of tech & strategy while letting someone else manage finance, hr, etc. I couldn't find a single one that actually explains what a CEO does on coursera/edx/novoed.

I would highly recommend "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman.

He also lists several other good books in there. Even if you're not in charge of the entire business, you'll have a good idea of the "big picture" of how it runs.

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

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Post by halviti »

mrsuprawsm wrote: post #99

Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com/ It's not tech-related, but I have achieved near-fluency in one language in less than a year (Dutch), and I'm currently learning 3-4 others. (Russian, German, French, Italian) I find it very effective and easy to fit in around everyday life. I would definitely recommend it to anyone else seeking to learn languages.

"Fluency" is kind of a subjective term. If anyone is curious, as a rule of thumb a duolingo course is sufficient to get you to an A2-B1 language level in reading/listening and around an A1-A2 level in speaking.
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