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The discussion pops up regularly about which MOOCs and courses to take so I figured I'd start a curated list of recommendations. It's by no means exhaustive (and it's just the ones I know) and is quite broad.
If you had any suggestions, feel free to create a PR or Issue, or even respond to this post and I will add it.
I'd love to be able to capture quality somehow, but not sure of the way to go about that just yet.
https://github.com/tombasche/professional-development
I've taken some courses and they're really quite intense. The bonus is that they are free (subsidized by Santa Fe Institute). It's definitely a niche audience, but what they are teaching is very current.
I occasionally see links to some of the instructors' other works here on HN, so it is probably a good fit.
Also, there is Lynda.com. Where I live, you get free access to Lynda courses with your library card. Pretty amazing deal. I don't know how wide spread that is, though. I've taken some of their coding courses years ago and they were pretty good. They're constantly updated, so sometimes the search function is a bit hairy though.
Have you heard of Complexity Explorer? https://www.complexityexplorer.org I've taken some courses and they're really quite intense. The bonus is that they are free (subsidized by Santa Fe Institute). It's definitely a niche audience, but what they are teaching is very current. I occasionally see links to some of the instructors' other works here on HN, so it is probably a good fit. Also, there is Lynda.com. Where I l…
Interestingly looks like Lynda is just LinkedIn now
Pluralsight has excellent software dev and other IT/CS-related courses. https://www.pluralsight.com
https://www.codecademy.com/ Codecademy is nice. It's got an editor along with preview next to the course material. Works well as a quick refresher for a bit of self-review too.
Have you heard of Complexity Explorer? https://www.complexityexplorer.org I've taken some courses and they're really quite intense. The bonus is that they are free (subsidized by Santa Fe Institute). It's definitely a niche audience, but what they are teaching is very current. I occasionally see links to some of the instructors' other works here on HN, so it is probably a good fit. Also, there is Lynda.com. Where I l…
Thanks! Added them now :) Interestingly looks like Lynda is just LinkedIn now
It looks like LinkedIn bought it and then forgot about the branding migration. Even my library still just calls it Lynda.
I just logged in now to make sure that what I said about library cards was still true. It is.
BTW: Since it is a curated list, you could probably forgo the quality rating. The idea of curation is that all of your links should be high quality. Nobody intentionally promotes crappy curated items (unless of course that's the intent).
https://www.skillshare.com/ Has some useful courses ...