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Ask HN: What were some good MOOCs you participated in in 2013?
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#2Maps and the Geospatial Revolution on Coursera
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#3All in all, Eric Lander's 7.00x (Introduction to Biology) probably was the best of all the courses I completed in 2013. Lander is a fantastic lecturer -- it wasn't uncommon that his lectures (or shall I say performances) ended in applause.
Going beyond "just" videos and multiple-choice quizzes, the MITx folks built/assembled an impressive array of mostly web-based tools (e.g. a 3D molecule viewer, a molecule editor, a simplified version of genome viewers used by actual biologists) to support the learning enterprise.
Here's a glowing review that (unlike my scribblings here) starts to do the 7.00x experience justice: http://okazakifragments.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/the-best-mo...
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#4I really enjoyed Programming Languages by Dan Grossman (U. Washington) on Coursera. Well organised course, smoothly run. https://class.coursera.org/proglang-002
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#5Startup Engineering from Stanford on Coursera. Life changer for me.
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#6Intro to Machine Learning on Coursera was pretty great, just the right level of difficulty for a novice high schooler.
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#7Intro to Machine Learning on Coursera was pretty great, just the right level of difficulty for a novice high schooler.
I'm a high schooler. My knowledge is mainly in the front-end realm, with the vast majority of 'programming' I do being in JavaScript. Do you think I would be able to take it successfully?
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#8Machine Learning. I thought it was a really tough class and took more time than they say (they say workload: 5-7 hours/week -- maybe if you are perfect and your code never has bugs that you need to spend time debugging -- the course is based on programming assignments in Octave where you have to demonstrate mastery of machine learning concepts), but I put in a lot of extra time, mastered everything, finished with a 100. Andrew Ng is a top-notch teacher, even though his speaking style is very low-key. https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
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#9Learning Creative Learning: http://learn.media.mit.edu (for as long as they keep the site up anyway)
Introduced me to some new ideas about learning, and solidified some ambiguous thoughts I already had. Much fun.
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#10I finally made time for "Functional Programming in Scala" and it was fun.
However, I must add that when I tried to use Scala in the real-world, it was considerably more complicated due to implicits, CanBuildFrom, and other "invisible hands" (not merely synactic sugar, mind you).