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Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by amjd »

mohsinr wrote: post #145

Disappointed by Coursera and Udacity (they positioned for free MOOCs and now they are taking everything back they offered). More power to KhanAcademy and MIT Open Courseware! For staying true to their mission of providing Free Courses...

I haven't used Coursera recently but Udacity still has free courses and anyone can sign up for them. They even keep releasing free courses such as the new Deep Learning course by Google.

Also, I'm taking their Android nanodegree course on a scholarship and I can say that even that uses their existing free courses for teaching purposes and nanodegree mostly just provides you with projects and deadlines.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by bburky »

znpy wrote: post #116

In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes. Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry. =========================== 1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean. I am using the 40$/month in order to have 40GB of space, but my plan is to shut it down in a day or two. The advantage is to have storage space AND super-fast connection. If you don't w…

If anyone wants these steps fully automated you can use this script:

https://gist.github.com/bburky/40317e6375b1262b1a1fc31072acf...

Just use it as a User Data file on DigitalOcean or elsewhere.

Edit: After doing this, I realized coursera-dl has a Docker script already. You may prefer it: https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/tree/master/deplo...

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by collinmanderson »

znpy wrote: post #116

In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes. Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry. =========================== 1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean. I am using the 40$/month in order to have 40GB of space, but my plan is to shut it down in a day or two. The advantage is to have storage space AND super-fast connection. If you don't w…

Thank you for using Python 3. :)

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by TheArcane »

latenightcoding wrote: post #55

It is truly sad to see Coursera getting greedier by the day. I can honestly say this website changed my life, I was living in a third world country and still in high school when I enrolled in Andrew Ng's machine learning class and thanks to that MOOC I was able to get a machine learning job building recommender systems for a Canadian company straight out of high school. There are plenty of amazing MOOCs that Coursera…

Did coursera come up with an official statement yet?

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by CamperBob2 »

wonkaWonka wrote: post #40
sotojuan wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even worse, his comment assumes you can't improve your enjoyment of life just by learning about things you like.

After a while, this never ending river of UTF-8 characters and RGB pixels gets a little old. You realize all the time you've spent whiling away so much time, imagining that it's all building up to something even better than yesterday's tide of serialized data streams, that your youth has faded, and you're still just staring at a lightbulb masked behind a screen of wires, listening to air disturbed by oscillating magn…

I don't know what you expect, staring into the Internet. - Nietzsche

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by drxyzzy »

znpy wrote: post #135
znpy wrote: post #116

In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes. Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry. =========================== 1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean. I am using the 40$/month in order to have 40GB of space, but my plan is to shut it down in a day or two. The advantage is to have storage space AND super-fast connection. If you don't w…

Tested and successfully downloaded (about 30GB): - recsys-001 - hwswinterface-002 - eefun-001 - experiments-001 - gametheory-003 - crypto-010 - pgm - cariesmanagement-003 - algo2-003 - analyze-003 - audio-002 - ml-005 - sna-2012-001-staging - spatialcomputing-001 - organalysis-003 - compilers-004 - modelthinking-006 - ggp-003 - algo-009 - intrologic-005 - automata - linearopt-002 - matrix-002 Please add below this co…

eqp-004

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by znpy »

TheArcane wrote: post #204
latenightcoding wrote: post #55

It is truly sad to see Coursera getting greedier by the day. I can honestly say this website changed my life, I was living in a third world country and still in high school when I enrolled in Andrew Ng's machine learning class and thanks to that MOOC I was able to get a machine learning job building recommender systems for a Canadian company straight out of high school. There are plenty of amazing MOOCs that Coursera…

Did coursera come up with an official statement yet?

That would be an interesting read.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by znpy »

bburky wrote: post #202
znpy wrote: post #116

In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes. Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry. =========================== 1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean. I am using the 40$/month in order to have 40GB of space, but my plan is to shut it down in a day or two. The advantage is to have storage space AND super-fast connection. If you don't w…

If anyone wants these steps fully automated you can use this script: https://gist.github.com/bburky/40317e6375b1262b1a1fc31072acf... Just use it as a User Data file on DigitalOcean or elsewhere. Edit: After doing this, I realized coursera-dl has a Docker script already. You may prefer it: https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/tree/master/deplo...

Awesome. Just awesome.

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by znpy »

znpy wrote: post #116

In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes. Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry. =========================== 1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean. I am using the 40$/month in order to have 40GB of space, but my plan is to shut it down in a day or two. The advantage is to have storage space AND super-fast connection. If you don't w…

I was thinking that it didn't come to my mind to sit down and download as much content as I could from courses because it was freely available.

What I realized is that even on the internet nothing lasts forever, and that I should always download stuff I like, just in case...

Re: Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

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Post by WalterBright »

copperx wrote: post #180
WalterBright wrote: post #115

If I was a prof, I'd have every one of my lectures recorded and put online for free. I wish I had recorded the lectures I attended in college. Not recalling the lectures means the notes I took in class don't make much sense. Heck, I record all of the presentations I do, and they get posted for free on the intarnets. I put a fair amount of work into them - why hide them?

A bit tangential, but do you mind to share what equipment do you use to record your presentations?

I don't do the recording, whoever sets up the conference does it. Sometimes it's just a consumer video camera. The quality varies a lot :-) but for a lecture, the quality is not that important.

You will want to use a lapel microphone with a wireless transmitter/receiver, though.

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