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Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company

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Post by quibono »

vintermann wrote: post #8
quibono wrote: post #6

It's been a while since I took a Coursera course but I LOVED it at the beginning. Between Machine Learning, the (numerical) optimisation courses and NAND-To-Tetris (even for the platform alone) it had so many great courses to pick from.

I did Andrew Ng's old Machine Learning, Obarsky's Scala course, the Ng's Deep Learning specialization, Nand to Tetris part 1 and a small Data Science course which wasn't very good. I think my very first course was "Model Thinking" course, but I never took the exam there. I also tried the sequel to the Scala course at one point, and the Cryptography course, but I dropped out from those after finding out they were a bi…

I'll have to look at the Scala course, thanks!

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Post by vintermann »

Garlef wrote: post #10
vintermann wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did Andrew Ng's old Machine Learning, Obarsky's Scala course, the Ng's Deep Learning specialization, Nand to Tetris part 1 and a small Data Science course which wasn't very good. I think my very first course was "Model Thinking" course, but I never took the exam there. I also tried the sequel to the Scala course at one point, and the Cryptography course, but I dropped out from those after finding out they were a bi…

Odersky ;) "Model Thinking" was great! And I really liked the gamification course by Kevin Werbach (The topic was still hot back then) - something I used extensively at my start up.

Whoops, Obarsky was the Amiga synth guy, yeah, I haven't taken any courses with him. Although I might consider it.

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Post by wolvoleo »

We have free coursera at work. But I really hate it because it enforces random deadlines on you. Even though the courses are completely prerecorded and absolutely don't need any kind of deadlines. I just want to study at my own pace.

I also hate all the gamification.

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Post by ramon156 »

quibono wrote: post #3
unnamed76ri wrote: post #2

I’ve purchased many Udemy courses over the years. The subscription plan they’ve been pushing makes no sense financially. I hope I’m wrong but I worry that eventually being a subscriber will be the only thing they offer.

Any courses you would particularly recommend? I always found that Udemy's vast catalogue made it hard to actually pick a course.

There was one course I did gor mongoose, muber I think it's called. I really liked it as a student because it's all very bite-sized and you could stop/start whenever. They do recaps at the beginning.

Compare that to a 6 hr video on YouTube, next day you already forgot what the timestamp was about.

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Post by the_af »

vintermann wrote: post #8
quibono wrote: post #6

It's been a while since I took a Coursera course but I LOVED it at the beginning. Between Machine Learning, the (numerical) optimisation courses and NAND-To-Tetris (even for the platform alone) it had so many great courses to pick from.

I did Andrew Ng's old Machine Learning, Obarsky's Scala course, the Ng's Deep Learning specialization, Nand to Tetris part 1 and a small Data Science course which wasn't very good. I think my very first course was "Model Thinking" course, but I never took the exam there. I also tried the sequel to the Scala course at one point, and the Cryptography course, but I dropped out from those after finding out they were a bi…

Agreed about Odersky, the Scala course and the Scala Functional Programming course were solid (the latter a bit less so, a blemish was its insistence on Akka, but the concepts were interesting).

There was also a very interesting introduction to Programming Languages (by Dan... something? He was from the University of Washington I think) which covered multiple paradigms and had interesting things to say about the ML family.

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