Can very much recommend the Udacity's courses. They are well planned and a big plus is that the homework spans from quite easy task, to some rather difficult.
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
#32One other website that people might find interesting is MITx's program. http://mitx.mit.edu/ So far, I've tried Coursera and Udacity. Udacity: 1. Of the classes I took, only Udacity had programming exercises. For one of my friends, who had never taken programming, the course managed to capture his interest. Udacity's courseload is: i: video followed by a short quiz(multiple choice, fill in the blank, etc.) or a progr…
Coursera, on the other hand, seems to be a series of lectures that they then overlaid questions on too.
It sounds like you haven't really looked at Coursera? It has assignments, including programming assignments.
Re: Free online CS courses from Udactiy & Coursera starting over the next 2 weeks
#33I will also add that if you're finding scheduling conflicts to be a problem with finishing homework, Udacity is offering CS101 and CS373 without homework deadlines. http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs373/questions/34839/we-are-l...
I think that's a great move by Udacity. I am trying to catch up on unit 6 right now in CS101. It's definitely a challenge to keep up if you are doing the course as a "hobby". Of course I also don't really care about the certs so as long as the course material is available I'm happy.
For noobs like me I highly recommend the CS101 course, I found that a lot of stuff I was struggling with in Learn Python the Hardway (a great resource as well by the way and many thanks to Zed for making it available) and other sources online became clearer to me during the CS101 course.
I am looking forward to CS253:Web Application Engineering next.
Re: Free online CS courses from Udactiy & Coursera starting over the next 2 weeks
#34I will also add that if you're finding scheduling conflicts to be a problem with finishing homework, Udacity is offering CS101 and CS373 without homework deadlines. http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs373/questions/34839/we-are-l...
Who grades the homework assignments?
They're graded by a computer program. Usually you are writing function(s) and need to return a correct value.
As CS373 progressed it got more complex: you worked from some helper code (like a matrix class) and had multiple test cases to test your program.
Re: Free online CS courses from Udactiy & Coursera starting over the next 2 weeks
#35I 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…
What kind of undergrad CS curriculum doesn't have a compilers class? I thought that was a fairly common part of most CS curriculi.