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Post by itmag »

dpatru wrote: post #26
itmag wrote: post #24

It seems to me that all the e-learning courses that are popping up these days are focused on programming. When will we see courses on psychology, Spanish, martial arts, etc? What would those courses even look like in an e-learning format?

The tech for online learning is still being developed.so the courses offered are those close to the developers'interests and competencies, much like how the internet was first used for and by scientists. But the tech will spread.

Uh, I'm a developer and I work with a bunch of developers. Trust me, programming is not our numero uno interest in life. :-)

Judging from our office discussions, the most popular courses would have to be on picking up chicks, making moonshine, and all sorts of crazy money-making schemes.

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Post by 100k »

tutysara wrote: post #34

The course contents doesn't open on a android tablet. It says loading... for sometime, and it just stops after that. I tried with stock browser and Dolphin browser and both have the same issue.

Probably because of Flash. I thought the site was down Monday because it just said "Loading...". Then today, I realized I have a Flash blocker. Oops.

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Post by ramblerman »

itmag wrote: post #24

It seems to me that all the e-learning courses that are popping up these days are focused on programming. When will we see courses on psychology, Spanish, martial arts, etc? What would those courses even look like in an e-learning format?

I'd love to see something like this for math. A lot of these ML, AI courses have prerequisites in math that is pretty distant for me.

I know Khan is highly praised, and I have found help there, but I find the site very unstructured. Perhaps it works best when you have an existing syllabus or path to follow next to it.

It's also somewhat limited to college math

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Post by ramblerman »

weaksauce wrote: post #13
scarface548 wrote: post #4

Exercises 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.

agreed, I've found these exercises very doable with close to no python experience.

One thing that is really throwing me off atm, is all the static functions, sum(list), len(list) as opposed to more OO solutions

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