I can't wait til Paul Graham teaches a class. Holy shit I am so there.
Peter Norvig to teach 'Design of Computer Programs' at Udacity
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Re: Peter Norvig to teach 'Design of Computer Programs' at Udacity
#52So many courses, so little time!
So many new awesome courses this year. I enrolled in so many of them. No way I'm gonna be able to follow half of them. But it's still worth to try. Since these are easy to follow videos, you can just watch them during your lunch or just before going to sleep anyway. Way much better than watching TV at least. :)
It's kinda frustrating, though.
Coursera PGM, for example, takes something like 10h/week.It's too much.
But I'm happy and grateful because it exists; don't get me wrong.
Exciting times.
Re: Peter Norvig to teach 'Design of Computer Programs' at Udacity
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Peter fucking Norvig is going to sit you down and teach you some shit for free and all you have to say is 'argle bargle...social'? Social: IRC, message boards, facebook, google+, skype, mumble, news groups, facetime, instant messenger, etc. Try to teach someone something: Stack Overflow, reddit, hacker news, your own blog, also, all of the above under social. Collaboration: google docs, drop box, ftp, gliffy.
Yea, exactly. Whenever someone of Norvig's caliber is willing to teach, I shut up pay attention. I wouldn't care if Norvig was teaching how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I'd have my freaking notebook out scribbling down his recipe. Despite being a programmer my whole life, I'm taking the Udacity 101 course because you never know how another person's experience with the basics might change your understan…
Hey, when did the 101 start? I'm thinking of joining in but if it is too far along then I might wait for the next round..
Re: Peter Norvig to teach 'Design of Computer Programs' at Udacity
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea, exactly. Whenever someone of Norvig's caliber is willing to teach, I shut up pay attention. I wouldn't care if Norvig was teaching how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I'd have my freaking notebook out scribbling down his recipe. Despite being a programmer my whole life, I'm taking the Udacity 101 course because you never know how another person's experience with the basics might change your understan…
Hey, when did the 101 start? I'm thinking of joining in but if it is too far along then I might wait for the next round..
If you can still get in, it might not be too late to catch up. Obviously, you can submit all of the homework on time, but if you're score on the final is greater than your homework score, than they just use the final as your grade.