I have nothing but praise for the MIT/SIT for putting their courses online. For an introduction to python and cs, however, I like
"Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python" http://pragprog.com/titles/gwpy/practical-programming
MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
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Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#22it'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)
Touche; title updated.
... not that i don't love both Python and the vids :) but it was the truth
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#23it'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)
Touche; title updated.
... not that i don't love both Python and the vids :) but it was the truth
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#24I checked this out over a year ago and I couldn't go through with MIT OpenCourseWare classes because of lack of subtitles for many of their videos... But now I'm pleasantly surprised to see they added subtitle supports for Python classes! Kudos to MIT for recognizing that there are many disabled/foreign students keen to learn from their OCW materials.
I've watched a few of these, that professor is awesome. He teaches in a very positive way that's clearly understandable. He's the best one I've found on itunes U
checkout harvard's http://cs50.tv (beginning compsci mostly c, not c++) the professor is one of the best i've seen in terms of how enthusiastic he is about the material itself and about teaching it especially to students without much prior experience. You can tell he really loves this stuff and his attitude is infectious.
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#25I tried these, but ended up with Google Code Classes: http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ind... worked better for me.
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Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#26Thanks for the link. I'm a self-taught coder of about 13 years now (C, Java, Ruby) and I always feel like there's a few basics I'm missing so I'll probably tackle this after Lisp. Besides, Python has always seemed like a very nice syntax (love when indenting means something but the colon bugs me).
Are you a professional coder now? If so, how/when did you start, once you started self-learning?
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
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I've watched a few of these, that professor is awesome. He teaches in a very positive way that's clearly understandable. He's the best one I've found on itunes U
checkout harvard's http://cs50.tv (beginning compsci mostly c, not c++) the professor is one of the best i've seen in terms of how enthusiastic he is about the material itself and about teaching it especially to students without much prior experience. You can tell he really loves this stuff and his attitude is infectious.
Definitely! It somehow manages to brush upon C, HTML, PHP, SQL and some Javascript...so you can actually start doing stuff.
A good starting point for CS, imo (and certainly better than the intro to CS course at my college).
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
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No problem :) IMHO, Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" (free book) is also really good at teaching both Python and programming: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index
This looks like a great book, I perused it briefly a while back, but I think that if you've been coding for 13 years you're well beyond the level of its target audience.
That's true. Zed's book is for total beginners; people who are just learning how to use a text editor.
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#29it'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)
I think there is a higher bitrate version available for download. You should be able to read code in that one.
Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
#30My only problem with MIT CourseWare is that the video (audio sometimes) is poor quality, I wish they uploaded 720p learning beauty.