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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 lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

criddell wrote: post #37
miketery wrote: post #33

Cryptography I by Dan Boneh. https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto (note even though it says crypto it is NOT related to blockchain crypto).

It is related, but only in the sense that crypto currencies are built on cryptography primitives.

Adding to this, before "crypto" became a household term that meant, roughly, "blockchain stuff" it was instead a general term for "cryptography". It's what is (perhaps was) meant when people say not to "roll your own crypto"[0] because it's so easy to get wrong.

[0] Since 2021 this phrase has been expanded to "roll your own crypto scam" and it's only used as an ethical statement. Don't "roll your own crypto scam" because it's wrong. (Okay, maybe this part is just a joke and people don't really say that. It's hard to say for sure.)

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

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Post by sn9 »

sampo wrote: post #31

Databases by prof. Widom, from Stanford. Currently the course is at edX, and split into 5 mini-courses. Everything in the course is well thought out and apparently polished and perfected over years of teaching practice and experience. There is nothing useless in the video lectures, and the course homework probes every topic from the lectures. https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ydatabases-databases Songwriting, a…

Thirding Widom's course!

It's my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting a strong foundation in SQL.

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Post by dev_0 »

te_chris wrote: post #41
yawboakye wrote: post #13

gilbert strang's linear algebra https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D . he has a few other linear algebra themed courses on there. very good because (1) he’s an incredible teacher, and (2) linear algebra is beautiful

Came here to say this. Go through the actual course methodically though - readings, summaries, problems solutions. It's incredible. Miles ahead of coursera equiv. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011...

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Post by jpamata »

A series of distributed systems courses from UIUC at coursera where you learn about systems design, distributed algorithms, and has you build projects like a distributed DB, implementing algorithms like gossip protocols, etc. in C++:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing

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Post by xupybd »

yawboakye wrote: post #13

gilbert strang's linear algebra https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D . he has a few other linear algebra themed courses on there. very good because (1) he’s an incredible teacher, and (2) linear algebra is beautiful

His lectures helped me through my engineering degree. My lecturers made it hard to understand, Gilbert's teaching made it easy to understand.

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Post by hackart »

criddell wrote: post #39

I'm looking for a course that uses tools like WinDbg and ETW and memory dumps to diagnose crashes, hangs, etc... It would need to include an introduction to basic assembly language because without that you don't get very far with WinDbg. I'd like to learn about some of the stuff that Bruce Dawson talks about on his blog: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/

There are 2 courses on WinDbg at : https://p.ost2.fyi/

I took the Architecture 1001: x86-64 Assembly course at https://p.ost2.fyi/ and enjoyed solving the last two labs.

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