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MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

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

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Post by egonschiele »

overcast wrote: post #26
616c wrote: post #23

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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.

Correct, Manning frequently does "deal of the day". I will tweet the next time it happens for my book (@_egonschiele). I don't set the prices (obviously). The book is also available through Safari books online, and US-based folks can request it at their library also.

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

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Post by 616c »

egonschiele wrote: post #31
overcast wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Correct, Manning frequently does "deal of the day". I will tweet the next time it happens for my book (@_egonschiele). I don't set the prices (obviously). The book is also available through Safari books online, and US-based folks can request it at their library also.

Oh really? I have access to Safari. Thanks.

Still though, I think later this week I will buy a copy. I like your blog too, and after years of intro level courses of different types (currently watched my eyes water over when redoing insertion sort in Scala with Odersky in his Scala class in Coursera doing pattern matching and functional decomposition), perhaps all I really need is a picture book.

Out of curiosity, as a busy (what seems to be from your blog and GH profile) Etsy engineer, how did you get into writing such books?

I am very newbish but I love the quality content coming out of non-traditional non-academics on better CS instruction. What makes you tick, egonschiele?

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

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Post by pkaye »

lardo wrote: post #17
Ar-Curunir wrote: post #16

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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).

This boogles my mind. How can you be sued for providing a free educational resource?

I'm guessing under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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

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Post by pkaye »

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).

Could they not have collaborated with Youtube which has some form of automated cc acceptable for public contents.

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

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Post by bogomipz »

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 am really curios - sued for what and by whom?

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

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Post by bogomipz »

draker wrote: post #21
Ar-Curunir wrote: post #16

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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).

Thats outrageous.

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

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Post by egonschiele »

616c wrote: post #32
egonschiele wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct, Manning frequently does "deal of the day". I will tweet the next time it happens for my book (@_egonschiele). I don't set the prices (obviously). The book is also available through Safari books online, and US-based folks can request it at their library also.

Oh really? I have access to Safari. Thanks. Still though, I think later this week I will buy a copy. I like your blog too, and after years of intro level courses of different types (currently watched my eyes water over when redoing insertion sort in Scala with Odersky in his Scala class in Coursera doing pattern matching and functional decomposition), perhaps all I really need is a picture book. Out of curiosity, as…

Thanks, that's very nice of you to say. I wrote the book because I didn't find an easy-to-read book on algorithms, and it took me a long time to learn. I think teaching hard concepts in a clear way is very important, so that's what I try to do with my book and blog.

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

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Post by bogomipz »

noir_lord wrote: post #20
gagagababa wrote: post #7

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You can find a lot of other courses if you poke around the net. For example, 6.005 - Elements of Software Construction is "As taught in 2011" on OCW [1], but you can find the latest notes here [2]. The content hasn't changed a lot since 2011 though, and the changes are mostly in the order of which the content is presented. As a side note, this is is easily the best course out there for novice/intermediate programmers…

Thanks for posting those links, [3] in particular looks fascinating.

Wow, link [3] look awesome. Thanks for sharing.

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

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Post by pkaye »

bogomipz wrote: post #35
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).

I am really curios - sued for what and by whom?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-...
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