Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

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Post by csdrane » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 2:40 PM UTC

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Post by rectang » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:21 PM UTC

Khan Academy math, because of the exercises.

They are consistent, not very buggy, gamified, and consumable in small or large amounts. Sal Khan is a good communicator and the videos are decent, but it's the exercises that make Khan Academy exceptional.

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Post by idiocratic » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:22 PM UTC

Robert Sedgewick's Algorithms has been one of the best for me, not only as a general refresher on algorithms, but also as a way of better understanding complexity notations.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

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Post by vector_rotcev » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:23 PM UTC

Learning how to learn, Barbara Oakley, Coursera.

By far and away the best learning course I've taken in my life as well, I wish it had been available before I had completed my formal education.

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Post by mcintyre1994 » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

fast.ai is outstanding, if you're at all interested in deep learning.

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Post by blcArmadillo » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:28 PM UTC

Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Course on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

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Post by ajudson » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:29 PM UTC

Nand2Tetris (part 1)

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Post by loganekz » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:29 PM UTC

Functional Programming Principles in Scala [1] taught by Martin Odersky, professor at EPFL and creator of the Scala language.

[1] - https://www.coursera.org/learn/progfun1

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Post by Fnoord » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:29 PM UTC

Learning How To Learn [1] by Dr. Barbara Oakley, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski available on Coursera & elsewhere.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

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Post by zachwill » Tue, Apr 03, 2018, 3:34 PM UTC

Not your usual answer for HN, but the best online courses I've ever taken are Chris Orwig's photography stuff on Lynda.com. Most local libraries have a free subscription with Lynda, and the way he teaches photography/Photoshop/etc was so useful to learn during college. It's not math or machine learning, but the guy is an absolute master at his craft -- and offers some of the clearest explanations on his line of thinking when working on projects.