Free online CS courses from Udactiy & Coursera starting over the next 2 weeks
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Re: Free online CS courses from Udactiy & Coursera starting over the next 2 weeks
#2When these courses started coming out I was very excited. Now that there are so many of them, I find myself being interested in too many and being paralyzed by excessive choice, to the point that I've gone back to good old books for my self-learning.
Re: Free online CS courses from Udactiy & Coursera starting over the next 2 weeks
#3I signed up for the 'build a web browser' class. Sounds like a fun challenge to write a HTML and js parser
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#4I almost feel as if it isn't fair. My university offers none of these things at the undergraduate level -- compilers isn't even offered at all. Although I am an advocate of this paradigm shift taking place, and am happy to be alive during a time where radical changes to education are surely to be made, these courses being offered make me really have second thoughts about putting all my time towards my university's summer courses to graduate as soon as I can. I hope they don't start charging by the time I finish undergrad.
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Re: Free online CS courses from Udactiy & Coursera starting over the next 2 weeks
#5I almost feel as if it isn't fair. My university offers none of these things at the undergraduate level -- compilers isn't even offered at all. Although I am an advocate of this paradigm shift taking place, and am happy to be alive during a time where radical changes to education are surely to be made, these courses being offered make me really have second thoughts about putting all my time towards my university's su…
Take udacity/coursera courses during the summer instead?
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#6Any opinion on Udacity's compiler classes versus Coursera's? There is a gap of one week between them, so we can try both and choose the one that suits us, but still, any gut feel?
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#7They should start in mid May instead so students can finish their Spring semester classes and then take Udacity or Coursera courses over the summer. With the current schedule, I would have to start taking the courses near my Spring term final exams.
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#8Any opinion on Udacity's compiler classes versus Coursera's? There is a gap of one week between them, so we can try both and choose the one that suits us, but still, any gut feel?
i don't see a Udacity compiler class
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#9Any opinion on Udacity's compiler classes versus Coursera's? There is a gap of one week between them, so we can try both and choose the one that suits us, but still, any gut feel?
I feel like Udacity's compiler class would be more practical and more entry level as compared to Coursera. Its target audience are the people who finished the recently concluded CS101 course. Coursera's version would be more theoretical, thorough and closer to a Stanford level undergraduate class. Coursera's version has midterms as well exams. So I feel like it would be around 10 weeks long as compared to 7 weeks for Udacity.
Like you I plan to try both of them and ideally finish both of them. I am also waiting on them to announce a part 2 of the Data Structure and Algorithm class.
Re: Free online CS courses from Udactiy & Coursera starting over the next 2 weeks
#10Any opinion on Udacity's compiler classes versus Coursera's? There is a gap of one week between them, so we can try both and choose the one that suits us, but still, any gut feel?
i don't see a Udacity compiler class
Its called "CS262 - Programming Languages - Building a Browser " by Wes Weimer http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs262