Excellent course--as a self-taught coder I used these classes to learn the basics. Great review of common data structures, big-O notation & algorithms, and even some basic coding syntax. HN has a number of lurkers who want to learn to code at any given time--all of them should take this class.
MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
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Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#12MIT OCW is currently one of my home pages, but it's the series on Algorithms. The other home page is HN of course. Good material no doubt.
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#13Having some free time on my hands lately, I've been cruising iTunesU for stuff like this, it's been pretty great. I can sit in my living room doing work on my laptop with courses from Stanford, MIT or ${reputible_university} playing on my TV. It's amazing how accessible knowledge is these days...
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#14This is another good resource for similar content. http://academicearth.org/
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#15This is another good resource for similar content. http://academicearth.org/
The videos on that site stutter a lot for me. Probably the fact that I'm on an ancient laptop.
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Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#16Thank you bitsai! Great source. Google's Python Class is also good.
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#17it's not "Python video lectures", it's "Introduction to Computer science" in which the teacher uses Python, and you can't barely see the code in the videos, so the real potential of these classes is theory (i know, i've seen them)
The disappointing part is that the lecturer talks about handouts that are given to students with the example code he uses during the lectures, which isn't online AFAIK. I find myself taking screenshots of the full screen flash video and replicating code I want to try out myself.
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#18Thank you bitsai! Great source. Google's Python Class is also good.
Their two day class, right? I'm a fan of that also; it quickly gets you to a level where you can do basic things and lookup slightly more complex things. http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ind...
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#19it's not "Python video lectures", it's "Introduction to Computer science" in which the teacher uses Python, and you can't barely see the code in the videos, so the real potential of these classes is theory (i know, i've seen them)
The disappointing part is that the lecturer talks about handouts that are given to students with the example code he uses during the lectures, which isn't online AFAIK. I find myself taking screenshots of the full screen flash video and replicating code I want to try out myself.
Have you looked at the OpenCourseWare home page for the course or http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... ?
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#20There is even an OpenStudy page for the course where you can get help: http://openstudy.com/study-groups/MIT+6.0+Intro+Computer+Sci...