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Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#42I enjoyed Game Theory [0], it makes you get a different perspective on many situations.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#43Learning 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.
I second that, really a good, to recommend course that gives you insights how our brains work and learn.
Although a bit lengthy for my taste.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#44Another oddball choice for HN, but the Coursera course Think Again: How to Reason and Argue, by Duke University's Ram Neta and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong [1] is exceptional.
The subject matter covers a staggering breadth of topics, which can be characterised as either (a) fundamentals of philosophical reasoning, or (b) stuff that amateur internet-debaters think they understand but actually don't.
[1] - https://www.coursera.org/learn/understanding-arguments
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#45Three Coursera MOOCs I particularly enjoyed:
* Discrete Optimization: almost entirely problem-driven, very challenging and entertaining prof; https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization
* Crypto I: very deep, thorough and crystal clear explanations; https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto
* Computer Networks: excellent overall course covering a wide variety of topics; https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~517478, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfgkuLYEOvGMWvHRgFAcj...
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#46Most 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…
Pat Pattison, Songwriting, Coursera! I took this too! Fantastic! Delightful to learn something (anything!) from someone who so thoroughly and completely knows just what he has to say to teach a topic he's expert at.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#47the MIT Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python on edx is beginner-level, and I took it a few years ago, so it might not be best for the people who read HN---but it's really good. Best introductory-level MOOC in anything I've ever seen.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#48Economics of Money and Banking, taught by Perry Mehrling on Coursera:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking
It's just fantastic. He explains what money really is from the perspective of treating everyone as a bank. Also, lots of good history here including the history of central banking, the gold standard, and war finance.
Anyone who wants to understand money should take this course. It would be nice if more cryptocurrency enthusiasts learned this kind of monetary economics.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#49Most 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…
> Pat Pattison, Songwriting, Coursera
This course gave me professor envy and made me up my game. So well done.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
#50Gilbert Strang's linear algebra lectures on MIT OCW
Donald Kagan's introduction to ancient greek history on open Yale courses