MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)

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Post by bitsai » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 3:55 PM UTC

MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)
ocw.mit.edu

Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)

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Post by metastew » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 4:35 PM UTC

I checked this out over a year ago and I couldn't go through with MIT OpenCourseWare classes because of lack of subtitles for many of their videos... But now I'm pleasantly surprised to see they added subtitle supports for Python classes! Kudos to MIT for recognizing that there are many disabled/foreign students keen to learn from their OCW materials.

Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)

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Post by rapind » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

Thanks for the link. I'm a self-taught coder of about 13 years now (C, Java, Ruby) and I always feel like there's a few basics I'm missing so I'll probably tackle this after Lisp. Besides, Python has always seemed like a very nice syntax (love when indenting means something but the colon bugs me).

Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)

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Post by beagledude » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 4:58 PM UTC

metastew wrote: post #2

I checked this out over a year ago and I couldn't go through with MIT OpenCourseWare classes because of lack of subtitles for many of their videos... But now I'm pleasantly surprised to see they added subtitle supports for Python classes! Kudos to MIT for recognizing that there are many disabled/foreign students keen to learn from their OCW materials.

I've watched a few of these, that professor is awesome. He teaches in a very positive way that's clearly understandable. He's the best one I've found on itunes U

Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)

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Post by zemanel » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 5:05 PM UTC

it's not "Python video lectures", it's "Introduction to Computer science" in which the teacher uses Python, and you can't barely see the code in the videos, so the real potential of these classes is theory (i know, i've seen them)

Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)

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Post by bitsai » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 5:07 PM UTC

rapind wrote: post #3

Thanks for the link. I'm a self-taught coder of about 13 years now (C, Java, Ruby) and I always feel like there's a few basics I'm missing so I'll probably tackle this after Lisp. Besides, Python has always seemed like a very nice syntax (love when indenting means something but the colon bugs me).

No problem :)

IMHO, Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" (free book) is also really good at teaching both Python and programming:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index

Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)

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Post by bitsai » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 5:10 PM UTC

zemanel wrote: post #5

it's not "Python video lectures", it's "Introduction to Computer science" in which the teacher uses Python, and you can't barely see the code in the videos, so the real potential of these classes is theory (i know, i've seen them)

Touche; title updated.

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Post by JCB_K » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 5:18 PM UTC

I tried these, but ended up with Google Code Classes: http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ind...

worked better for me.

Re: MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 6:07 PM UTC

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Post by flatline » Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 6:10 PM UTC

bitsai wrote: post #6

rapind wrote: post #3

Thanks for the link. I'm a self-taught coder of about 13 years now (C, Java, Ruby) and I always feel like there's a few basics I'm missing so I'll probably tackle this after Lisp. Besides, Python has always seemed like a very nice syntax (love when indenting means something but the colon bugs me).

No problem :) IMHO, Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" (free book) is also really good at teaching both Python and programming: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index

This looks like a great book, I perused it briefly a while back, but I think that if you've been coding for 13 years you're well beyond the level of its target audience.