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Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company

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Post by chimpanzee »

avazhi wrote: post #89
chimpanzee wrote: post #85

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> yeah you're right the guy who told me which words I shouldn't say definitely isn't trying to control my speech. >> Please don't use ridiculous and painful slurs in a serious conversation. "Please don't" is just a polite request, particularly when used by an anonymous and presumably powerless stranger on the internet. It's not an attempt to take control or use force. It's an attempt to get you to introspect. Don't b…

> Don't be so sensitive :p At least you’re self-aware about this. See ya around, bud.

That one scurred you, huh? Ya had to toss it right back.

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Post by brudgers »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #75
brudgers wrote: post #72

For context this is sort of where we started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3119959 If you click the link to those original free courses, you get 403 Forbidden Don't know what it means, but Coursera made me sad a long time ago when it locked up all its value behind a paywall while getting rid of human interaction.

Is this the same content? https://online.stanford.edu/free-courses

No.

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Post by hirvi74 »

x187463 wrote: post #51
quibono wrote: post #6

It's been a while since I took a Coursera course but I LOVED it at the beginning. Between Machine Learning, the (numerical) optimisation courses and NAND-To-Tetris (even for the platform alone) it had so many great courses to pick from.

+1 for NAND-to-Tetris. I combined it with a visual logic simulator so I could actually see the structures beyond the VHDL. I would love to go back and do Part 2.

I have the book, but I was unaware of the course. Was the book necessary for the course? Also, do you think the book is sufficient without the course?

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Post by duxup »

n8cpdx wrote: post #74

Lots of hate for coursera and udemy, but what about competitors? Are folks having good results elsewhere? I enjoyed a course I took last summer on EdX; not a super polished experience, but the content was good and the projects were challenging. I’ve enjoyed pluralsight in the past, but it is hit or miss whether it will have content you’re interested in. I’m on mathacademy but that is text only and a very focused nich…

Front End Masters, frontendmasters.com has been my go to for many many years. Granted they're much lower volume than udemy and such sites. They're changing their name soon as they've long since expanded to cover topics outside "front end".

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Post by culi »

n8cpdx wrote: post #74

Lots of hate for coursera and udemy, but what about competitors? Are folks having good results elsewhere? I enjoyed a course I took last summer on EdX; not a super polished experience, but the content was good and the projects were challenging. I’ve enjoyed pluralsight in the past, but it is hit or miss whether it will have content you’re interested in. I’m on mathacademy but that is text only and a very focused nich…

TBH I had no idea most people thought of these platforms as being focused on tech content. I've enjoyed a ton of social science courses. I was a big fan of the MOOC model at the peak of its hype cycle for the possibility of opening up education from world-class universities to the masses

Coursera and EdX were the peak of that for me. Udacity and Udemy were definitely more industry-focused. Some universities had their own platforms like MIT Open Courseware. Class Central was a great attempt to aggregate courses across different platforms.

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Post by lenocinor »

n8cpdx wrote: post #74

Lots of hate for coursera and udemy, but what about competitors? Are folks having good results elsewhere? I enjoyed a course I took last summer on EdX; not a super polished experience, but the content was good and the projects were challenging. I’ve enjoyed pluralsight in the past, but it is hit or miss whether it will have content you’re interested in. I’m on mathacademy but that is text only and a very focused nich…

I like Josh Comeau’s frontend courses a lot. Great interactive explanations and lots of relevant exercises to work through.

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Post by bbaron63 »

vintermann wrote: post #8
quibono wrote: post #6

It's been a while since I took a Coursera course but I LOVED it at the beginning. Between Machine Learning, the (numerical) optimisation courses and NAND-To-Tetris (even for the platform alone) it had so many great courses to pick from.

I did Andrew Ng's old Machine Learning, Obarsky's Scala course, the Ng's Deep Learning specialization, Nand to Tetris part 1 and a small Data Science course which wasn't very good. I think my very first course was "Model Thinking" course, but I never took the exam there. I also tried the sequel to the Scala course at one point, and the Cryptography course, but I dropped out from those after finding out they were a bi…

The Odersky Scala course was pretty cool. It gave me a basic understanding of monoids and monads that has stuck with me. Robert Sedgewick's courses were very good. Learned a lot about graphs.

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Post by the_af »

z0k wrote: post #88
the_af wrote: post #18

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Agreed about Odersky, the Scala course and the Scala Functional Programming course were solid (the latter a bit less so, a blemish was its insistence on Akka, but the concepts were interesting). There was also a very interesting introduction to Programming Languages (by Dan... something? He was from the University of Washington I think) which covered multiple paradigms and had interesting things to say about the ML f…

Yes, Programming Languages by Dan Grossman! The course was later split up into three parts, with each part focusing on a particular language/paradigm: SML, Racket, and Ruby. Definitely one of the higher quality offerings on Coursera.

Yes, that's the one. I forgot that I discovered and played with Racket because of this course. Really cool language (and course).
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