Can anybody recommend any courses for learning WebGL?
Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
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#32Most fun: Pat Pattison, Songwriting, Coursera. Very good lectures, very good material, very well presented. Teaches a lot about writing song lyrics in just 6 weeks, breaks it nicely down to steps and recipes. I used to think that the best feature of MOOCs is the automatic grading and feedback from programming homework, but in this course, for the homework songwriting you gave and got feedback from 3-5 random people i…
I concur completely with this assessment of Ng's and Widom's courses.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#33Over the past few years, I've watched a few courses on Udacity, Coursera and EdX. I prefer taking ad-hoc courses to fill knowledge gaps (statistics, AI, programming, math, etc.), so I can't give a full review of the complete Nanodegrees, Certificates, XSeries, etc. I usually watch the lessons as needed without completing the entire course; mixing and matching MOOC courses with video learning sites (e.g. Datacamp, You…
Do you have any recommendations on statistics for beginners?
Udacity has two free introductory statistics courses that they recommend prior to starting their AI nanodegree program:
Intro to Descriptive Statistics [https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-descriptive-statisti...]
Intro to Inferential Statistics [https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-inferential-statisti...]
Khan Academy also has very in-depth coverage of statistics, starting from the basics. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#34Udacity's Self-driving Car Nanodegree by a wide margin.
From the rest, MIT's Underactuated Robotics (Boston Dynamics stuff) was pretty rad, Udacity's Deep Learning Foundations Nanodegree was very useful, Ng's Machine Learning was made super easy. The School of AI's DApps/Blockchain course so far looks pretty good as well.
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#35MoMA's "Fashion as Design" course was pretty interesting: https://www.coursera.org/learn/fashion-design/
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#36Most fun: Pat Pattison, Songwriting, Coursera. Very good lectures, very good material, very well presented. Teaches a lot about writing song lyrics in just 6 weeks, breaks it nicely down to steps and recipes. I used to think that the best feature of MOOCs is the automatic grading and feedback from programming homework, but in this course, for the homework songwriting you gave and got feedback from 3-5 random people i…
> Probabilistic Graphical Models, Daphne Koller – the first course in the specialization has a very good and engaging start, but the gap between lectures and problems widens quickly after that (maybe that's why the author boasts about a "challenging" course "not for everyone"). I'm hesitant to take the next course of the specialization.
I wrote about the first version when it was all in one course. It seems they have split it into 3 courses now. Probably it's less dense now.
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#37Most fun and learnt a lot in Introduction to Mathematical Thinking taught by Keith Devlin. I did this course from Coursera in 2012. The most fun part was the forum where students collaborated to discuss and gain better understanding of the problems.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#38Most fun: Pat Pattison, Songwriting, Coursera. Very good lectures, very good material, very well presented. Teaches a lot about writing song lyrics in just 6 weeks, breaks it nicely down to steps and recipes. I used to think that the best feature of MOOCs is the automatic grading and feedback from programming homework, but in this course, for the homework songwriting you gave and got feedback from 3-5 random people i…
> Probabilistic Graphical Models, Daphne Koller – the first course in the specialization has a very good and engaging start, but the gap between lectures and problems widens quickly after that (maybe that's why the author boasts about a "challenging" course "not for everyone"). I'm hesitant to take the next course of the specialization.
PGM was brutal... At Stanford straight As students were happy just to pass...
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#39Functional 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
Seconded! Odersky is a great lecturer (and very practical lecturer despite Scalas "academic" reputation) and the course was very well organized.
I did the course on the first or second run however, not sure if it has been kept up to date or if it is still well run.
Was disappointed with the follow up courses though, the lecturers didn't live up to Odersky.
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#40CS50 on EdX was a great intro course helping me to get into programming.
Agile Development Using Ruby on Rails (in two parts) on EdX was also great, primarily because they encouraged students to set up pair programming sessions over Google Hangouts. It's amazing how many ways there are to solve a problem, and live discussions in small groups over Hangouts were an outstanding resource to learn.
I am currently enjoying courses from the Applied Data Science with Python specialization on Coursera. I love how they are using Jupyter notebooks for assignments; it makes the problems feel realistic and at the same time very accessible.