Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by ezhil » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:12 AM UTC

antman wrote: post #202

carlosgg wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey antman, thanks a lot for the comment! Can you elaborate a bit more on how MooCs have made a difference in your life? Thank you.

I was a mech eng manager in industrial automation. Did the MOOCs, chose a domain, started a phd in ML and AI by showing my MOOC results, got picked during the 3rd year from one of the big consulting companies, now running a series of international projects. Banking(IT only), AI, CompVision and Analytics.

This is very inspirational. Thanks and congrats!

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

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Post by senatorobama » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:27 AM UTC

This thread is ABSOLUTE GOLD!!!!

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

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Post by john_owens » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:27 AM UTC

andy000 wrote: post #207

randyzwitch wrote: post #106

I found Udacity CS344: Intro to Parallel Programming (CUDA) a great class, not only from a practical standpoint of learning CUDA but also had some decent explanations/whiteboarding behind the algorithms

Think that was taken down for some reason. I tried watching it last month

All course videos are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F620ommtjqk&list=PLAwxTw4SYa...

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

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Post by mxyzptlk » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 3:55 AM UTC

I enjoyed sabremetrics 101 at edX. Some statistics, light coding (SQL and R), history and baseball.

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

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Post by plaguuuuuu » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 4:17 AM UTC

drxyzzy wrote: post #92

1. Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation (on edX, from UC Berkeley: https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-quantum-computa... ), taught by Umesh Vazirani. Intro to quantum computing that made clear key ideas in quantum mechanics, almost in passing. The first of over 70 MOOCs I completed, not available at the moment. 2. Astrophysics (on edX from Australian National University, 4-part series: https://www.edx.…

is there any way to view the old material from #1?

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

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Post by Salutator » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 4:28 AM UTC

carusooneliner wrote: post #64

Financial markets by Robert Shiller: https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-global I wanted to invest better so I took this course to learn the basics of financial markets (I'm a software guy and have zero training in finance). After taking it, not only do I have the basics nailed down but have gained a massive appreciation of finance as a technology that, at its best, mitigates risk and advances society. S…

I was about to disagree, but it seems that course was redesigned in 2017 and the new syllabus looks like a real course.

So I'll just say the pre-2017 version I took was clearly created by bad PR-people.

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

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Post by petecox » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 4:46 AM UTC

(Folks have already mentioned Odersky and Grossman for grokking functional programming)

FutureLearn has an introductory Dutch course. I've only learned languages from the Romance family previously, so it was a worthwhile experience. (Dutch-Australian in-laws) It's a taster course requiring further study but well worth satisfying your curiosity.

Dutch (and Frisian) may provide a stepping stone to understanding Old English - there are recognisably 'Germanic' traits.

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

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Post by geomark » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 4:53 AM UTC

user2994cb wrote: post #15

Dan Boneh's Cryptography Part I on Coursera. Will we ever get Part II? Enrolling for Sept 2018 according to Coursera.

Part I was great. Been waiting forever for Part II. If it ever happens I will have to retake Part I to refresh everything I forgot.

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

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Post by dang » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 4:55 AM UTC

Freeboots wrote: post #258

Suncho wrote: post #48

Economics 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 c…

But muh deflation!

Could you please not post unsubstantive comments here?

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

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Post by Salutator » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 5:16 AM UTC

The best teaching I've seen in a MOOC is in Introduction to Financial Accounting / More Introduction to Financial Accounting by Brian J Bushee on Coursera. (This used to be one course back when I took it.)

The subject matter is probably not that interesting to most hackers but it is a great example of making the MOOC-format work.