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Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by draker » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 3:48 PM UTC

Ar-Curunir wrote: post #16

draker wrote: post #15

Berkeley was making all of their lecture videos available to the public until they recently moved to EdX. Course videos from Spring 2015 and prior (going back as far as Spring 2010) can be accessed here: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/series.html#c,d,Computer_Science I have been working through the cs core classes (61a/b/c) by following the syllabus from the semester corresponding to the videos for reading and homework…

We didn't move them to EdX, we just made them private and available to Berkeley students only. I think this is because of some rulings stating that lecture videos have to be provided with CC if they are to be made public (OCW was sued for this).

Thanks for the clarification. Obviously the lawsuit was seeking equal access for deaf/hard of hearing individuals but had the unintended effect of removing access for everyone (public).

It's a shame that a better solution could not be reached because it was very nice having recent course videos available (as opposed to many EdX courses which use 5-10 year old videos).

Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by relyks » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 4:17 PM UTC

Jeremy Scott from MIT, along with two other people, created a visual language for tracing and explaining data structures and algorithms. "A Direct Manipulation Language for Explaining Algorithms" (https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mug/pubs/Scott2014DirectManipul...)

A bunch of teaching assistants used it during recitations for the course. It looks really cool and very helpful for developing intuition.

Does anyone know if there are any course materials online related to this?

Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by 616c » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 5:03 PM UTC

egonschiele wrote: post #19

Hey! If anyone's interested in an intro to algorithms, I'd like to pitch my book Grokking Algorithms[1]. It is an illustrated guide with a focus on being easy to read. I've gotten a lot of comments about how easy it is [2] [3] [4]. Sample chapter here [5]. [1] https://amzn.com/1617292230 [2] https://twitter.com/cachilders/status/746522721794691073 [3] https://twitter.com/ashkrit/status/745636106163478529 [4] https://…

This is very interesting. I will look into. Going to start the Stanford algorithms course on Course in 1-2 weeks and I think this might be a help to me.

UPDATE: What's with Manning, if you don't mind me asking? I can buy dead tree and all digital media included from Amazon at 33.00 and change, but for 34.00 and change from Manning direct I don't get the paper copy? I live abroad so shipping would screw me. Haha.

Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by mohsinr » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 5:12 PM UTC

draker wrote: post #21

Ar-Curunir wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We didn't move them to EdX, we just made them private and available to Berkeley students only. I think this is because of some rulings stating that lecture videos have to be provided with CC if they are to be made public (OCW was sued for this).

Thanks for the clarification. Obviously the lawsuit was seeking equal access for deaf/hard of hearing individuals but had the unintended effect of removing access for everyone (public). It's a shame that a better solution could not be reached because it was very nice having recent course videos available (as opposed to many EdX courses which use 5-10 year old videos).

In case of this lawsuit, it achieved negative results hence: "the cure was worse than the disease".

Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by jgill » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 5:30 PM UTC

egonschiele wrote: post #19

Hey! If anyone's interested in an intro to algorithms, I'd like to pitch my book Grokking Algorithms[1]. It is an illustrated guide with a focus on being easy to read. I've gotten a lot of comments about how easy it is [2] [3] [4]. Sample chapter here [5]. [1] https://amzn.com/1617292230 [2] https://twitter.com/cachilders/status/746522721794691073 [3] https://twitter.com/ashkrit/status/745636106163478529 [4] https://…

Purchased your book in a show of support of your work (your HN username made me smile a little too).

Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by overcast » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 5:33 PM UTC

616c wrote: post #23

egonschiele wrote: post #19

Hey! If anyone's interested in an intro to algorithms, I'd like to pitch my book Grokking Algorithms[1]. It is an illustrated guide with a focus on being easy to read. I've gotten a lot of comments about how easy it is [2] [3] [4]. Sample chapter here [5]. [1] https://amzn.com/1617292230 [2] https://twitter.com/cachilders/status/746522721794691073 [3] https://twitter.com/ashkrit/status/745636106163478529 [4] https://…

This is very interesting. I will look into. Going to start the Stanford algorithms course on Course in 1-2 weeks and I think this might be a help to me. UPDATE: What's with Manning, if you don't mind me asking? I can buy dead tree and all digital media included from Amazon at 33.00 and change, but for 34.00 and change from Manning direct I don't get the paper copy? I live abroad so shipping would screw me. Haha.

Just an FYI, Manning has a code the past two days for 50% off all books, and they will often have 35-50% off single books at anyone time. Their shipping is also expensive for a single item, but free for three. But yes, otherwise it's very expensive. $45 for a 200 page picture book on algorithms is a bit steep.

Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by zerr » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 6:14 PM UTC

Ar-Curunir wrote: post #16

draker wrote: post #15

Berkeley was making all of their lecture videos available to the public until they recently moved to EdX. Course videos from Spring 2015 and prior (going back as far as Spring 2010) can be accessed here: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/series.html#c,d,Computer_Science I have been working through the cs core classes (61a/b/c) by following the syllabus from the semester corresponding to the videos for reading and homework…

We didn't move them to EdX, we just made them private and available to Berkeley students only. I think this is because of some rulings stating that lecture videos have to be provided with CC if they are to be made public (OCW was sued for this).

I guess you can distribute it through "unofficial" torrents.

Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by zerr » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

AlexC04 wrote: post #14

This is great! I just picked up the famous algorithms textbook (CLRS) and have been reading through (I'm just past the introduction and am moving in to chapters 1 - 3 (basing my schedule on the readings in this course) I figure if I follow along in the videos it'll be a great compliment with the two of them enhancing each other. Now if only I could find the "algorithms certificate" to go with it, maybe I could use th…

Not sure.. CLRS is too dense for page-to-page reading. The more I was advancing through the book the more I was forgetting from the previous chapters... :)

Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by harrisi » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

Ar-Curunir wrote: post #16

draker wrote: post #15

Berkeley was making all of their lecture videos available to the public until they recently moved to EdX. Course videos from Spring 2015 and prior (going back as far as Spring 2010) can be accessed here: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/series.html#c,d,Computer_Science I have been working through the cs core classes (61a/b/c) by following the syllabus from the semester corresponding to the videos for reading and homework…

We didn't move them to EdX, we just made them private and available to Berkeley students only. I think this is because of some rulings stating that lecture videos have to be provided with CC if they are to be made public (OCW was sued for this).

I don't know what your role is in this, but is this simply an issue of transcribing the audio of the lectures and providing them along with the video? Is there any program set in place to have someone (assuming a software-only approach isn't satisfactory, as it might not give correct results) do this?

More directly, could one volunteer to transcribe the lectures into a CC-like format so that the lectures could be safely and legally be put up for public consumption?

Re: MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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Post by egonschiele » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

jgill wrote: post #25

egonschiele wrote: post #19

Hey! If anyone's interested in an intro to algorithms, I'd like to pitch my book Grokking Algorithms[1]. It is an illustrated guide with a focus on being easy to read. I've gotten a lot of comments about how easy it is [2] [3] [4]. Sample chapter here [5]. [1] https://amzn.com/1617292230 [2] https://twitter.com/cachilders/status/746522721794691073 [3] https://twitter.com/ashkrit/status/745636106163478529 [4] https://…

Purchased your book in a show of support of your work (your HN username made me smile a little too).

Thank you!