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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

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Post by lofatdairy »

More humanities than STEM but I'm a fan of damn near anything out of Yale's open courses. Personal recommendations are the Introduction to the Theory of Literature w/ Prof. Fry and the recent course on Ukrainian history. Both are fairly intro level in terms of structure but the details and depth don't suffer too badly for it. There's more interesting stuff like a class on Dante's Divine comedy so it really is mostly just a question of navigating the video library.

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photochemsyn wrote: post #35

Herb Gross's ultra-classic old-school chalkboard delivery of "Calculus of Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra" should not be missed: https://youtu.be/BOx8LRyr8mU It turns out he also produced a complete series on the precursor material, "Single Variable Calculus" as well, which I only just now discovered: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-si... This professor has a gr…

That cold open joke is amazing. I miss MIT.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

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Post by frob »

photochemsyn wrote: post #35

Herb Gross's ultra-classic old-school chalkboard delivery of "Calculus of Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra" should not be missed: https://youtu.be/BOx8LRyr8mU It turns out he also produced a complete series on the precursor material, "Single Variable Calculus" as well, which I only just now discovered: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-si... This professor has a gr…

Also, that is the best definition of the real numbers I have seen so far

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Post by simonbarker87 »

Harvards CS50 course changed my life. It was the first course that got through to me about how to code. Without that course and the enthusiasm of Professor David Malan I wouldn’t be where I am now and I’d be stuck falling back on an electrical engineering degree which bores me to tears.

cs50.net

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

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Post by codemonkey-zeta »

All of Michael Sugrue's (former Princeton professor) lectures on YouTube are phenomenal. They single-handedly inspired me to study philosophy. His style is eloquent but off-the-cuff, he is so knowledgeable and ties together the history of philosophy so gracefully that all the lectures left me enraptured.

Example: https://youtu.be/d-vcItYxM9U

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