I logged in as soon as it went live and did a programming quiz. Immediately after that I received a mail from David Evans,
"You're the first one to pass a programming quiz! --- Dave"
Hah!
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#12Honestly, the class, "Programming a Robotic Car" sounded pretty lame. When am I going to program a robotic car? Never. As cool as it sounds in principle, I figured it would be pretty domain-specific and relevant only if you were doing autonomous robotics. However, I must say that the syllabus looks amazing, and pretty hardcore. It appears to have less to do with robotic cars per se and more to do with applied control…
My guess would be that the title of the class was aimed at students of ai-class.org, in which he touched on several of the topics you mention in the context of his work in automated driving. When I saw the title of the course it immediately struct me that this would be a deeper look into all the cool things he pointed out in ai-class.
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#13Exercises are in python. Learning python as needed seems like a good strategy
Python is really fairly easy. You shouldn't have much trouble with it unless you are a beginner in programming in general. Even then it should still be possible with a little extra work.
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#14I logged in as soon as it went live and did a programming quiz. Immediately after that I received a mail from David Evans, "You're the first one to pass a programming quiz! --- Dave" Hah!
That was the best "First!" I've ever seen.
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#15"Forgot password?" doesn't do anything. It doesn't allow me to sign up either, saying "That email has already been registered"
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#16I like what I see so far. I'm learning programming, and jut went through the first lesson of CS 101. Here's what I liked:
1. The videos are supplemented by written course notes. This is useful for people (like me) who prefer text to video.
2. There are quizzes to confirm understanding, and they come very shortly after learning a concept. This provides fast feedback.
Crucially, the quizzes can be repeated until you gets the answer right, and an explanation follows.
The first lesson is pretty basic, but the overall learning framework seems promising. It's focussed on making sure you understand.
I'm just using this as a supplement, but it will be interesting to see where it goes.
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#17I'm on my Junior year in CS major and I think I will take CS101 on Udacity. Not only do I think Udacity can do a better job than my college, but I think I can learn new things.
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#18"Forgot password?" doesn't do anything. It doesn't allow me to sign up either, saying "That email has already been registered"
Go to the home page and click on "Forgot password?" there.
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#19Having done the AI class last year, I have to say that I'm really positively surprised how much they apparently learned from the results of that class. Sebastian's style is way better now, with those digital scribbles and the combined programming step by step exercises for particle filters. That was exactly the stuff that threw me off sometimes at AI class (and I bet quite a few of others).