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CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum by Carnegie Mellon

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Re: CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum by Carnegie Mellon

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Post by mym1990 »

anonporridge wrote: post #128
boppo1 wrote: post #101

What's with all the free CS programs? How about a free law or pre-med curriculum?

Unlike law and medicine, software engineering has yet to setup it's own guild that works to maintain its high salaries by gatekeeping entry into the profession with endless hoops to jump through and student loans to laden yourself with. It's relatively meritocratic and in many cases you don't even need a degree at all if you can otherwise prove you can do the work. Sometimes those people are even better than the degr…

If anything software engineering and development has been going the other way with the advent of bootcamps in the early/mid 2010s.

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Post by mym1990 »

fma wrote: post #103
boppo1 wrote: post #101

What's with all the free CS programs? How about a free law or pre-med curriculum?

Maybe because HN is skewed towards CS topics. But I agree, there are other careers that I think deserves attention for the benefit of society besides trying to cram everyone into an IT career. I keep reading of shortages in medical and trades fields. If we are short CS degree holders for the benefit of society, simply pivot them to meaningful software work rather then driving clicks.

Would love to learn to do a trade really well in my lifetime, whether it is carpentry or being a mechanic, if only to mess around with my own projects.

Re: CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum by Carnegie Mellon

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Post by troupe »

Farbklex wrote: post #79

I usually just recommended Harvard's CS50 as it is a very high quality introduction course (To be clear I was not a Harvard or any _fancy_ university). Is there any better course available?

I usually recommend starting with How to Code: Simple Data, then How to Code: Complex Data. Then after that CS50 or some class in a language like Python, Java, Javascript, etc.

The reason I really like starting with the How to Code series is because it really teaches how to solve problems with code in ways that apply to any language. And the projects are reasonably fun. The simple data ends with creating a graphical space invaders game.

Re: CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum by Carnegie Mellon

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Post by troupe »

squokko wrote: post #31
diebeforei485 wrote: post #19

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Those were taken down because of some complicated lawsuit about use of public funds to make available content that wasn't accessible to people with disabilities. It was too expensive to make the recorded lectures work with tools used by people with disabilities, so the university took down the content instead instead of spending even more resources making it compatible with screen readers, adding captioning, etc. CMU…

That is the most Berkeley thing I've ever heard

Well Berkeley wasn't wanting to take it down, but there are evidently people who like to sue Berkeley who would prefer a world where those videos aren't available to anyone.

Re: CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum by Carnegie Mellon

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

dgacmu wrote: post #135
AlchemistCamp wrote: post #133

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It's still not the curriculum that CMU teaches its students. Self-studying through it will not give the learner anything remotely similar to the knowledge a CMU student majoring in CS gets. For ambitious autodidacts hoping to do something like Scott Young's MIT challenge, this is crucial information to have.

no, of course it's not, it's targeted to high school students, which is very clearly stated in the page: "WHO IS IT FOR? 8th + 9th grade [...]". It's designed to be a high school curriculum that doesn't suck. Many US high schools do an incredibly poor job of teaching computer science, if they even try at all. Now, that said, the AP part of it is based upon our intro course, 15-112, and if you take the full year of it…

> and we'll give you CMU course credit for it

This is the part that I bet a lot of prospective students will like!

Do you think the program will eventually get extended to cover some of those remaining 7.5 semesters or remain focused on the initial half semester?

Re: CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum by Carnegie Mellon

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Post by dgacmu »

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #145
dgacmu wrote: post #135

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no, of course it's not, it's targeted to high school students, which is very clearly stated in the page: "WHO IS IT FOR? 8th + 9th grade [...]". It's designed to be a high school curriculum that doesn't suck. Many US high schools do an incredibly poor job of teaching computer science, if they even try at all. Now, that said, the AP part of it is based upon our intro course, 15-112, and if you take the full year of it…

> and we'll give you CMU course credit for it This is the part that I bet a lot of prospective students will like! Do you think the program will eventually get extended to cover some of those remaining 7.5 semesters or remain focused on the initial half semester?

Not this one. The core focus of cs academy is and will remain trying to lift up high school cs education.

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Post by eddsh1994 »

throwayyy479087 wrote: post #124
eddsh1994 wrote: post #121

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As a chess player myself, why are parents demanding chess in the same category as coding and robotics?

all get categorized as "things smart people do"

Ah they must not have met your average chess club player then! :P

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Post by theusus »

ghaff wrote: post #115
theusus wrote: post #70

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Because good literature for other engineering fields is hard to find.

I'm not sure that's true in general. You can go through something like OCW and see the notes and can buy the same books used in the courses. You may need to hunt down appropriate problem sets to work on but there's a ton of material out there. That said, as commented on up thread, you'll end up doing a lot of work to get a very theoretical not-degree, without even the benefit of labs, that is probably more or less us…

When I say good I mean comprehensible and lucid. I am an electrical engineer. And it was a pain for me to good find books that will make me understand things.

Where did I look for resources? Everywhere.

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Post by frozencell »

frozencell wrote: post #85
mym1990 wrote: post #62

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The irony of their headline “free for all, designed for you”.

They are talking about the self-reproducing privileged wealthy "American" parents children caste. You should have noticed the cute bunny paws as an indicator :p

Why the downvotes? They have a good privacy but they lie with their "free for all" marketing and ask to provide the name of the school or organization the user is working with.

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Post by rg111 »

philonoist wrote: post #106
rg111 wrote: post #88

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You can't find them anywhere? Not even Archive.org? Please tell me you can find them somewhere .

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