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Great Computer Science Lectures for all levels

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Re: Great Computer Science Lectures for all levels

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Post by obilgic »

These lectures are amazing. Watch "Unix terminals and shells" series for example, you will get a better understanding of what is going on behind the scenes when you run a ruby script.

He deserves the be on the front page for sure. I would also encourage you to buy him a coffe through his donation button.

More vides on his youtube, for example "Intro to Clojure" series:

http://www.youtube.com/user/briantwill/videos?view=1&sor...

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obilgic wrote: post #2

These lectures are amazing. Watch "Unix terminals and shells" series for example, you will get a better understanding of what is going on behind the scenes when you run a ruby script. He deserves the be on the front page for sure. I would also encourage you to buy him a coffe through his donation button. More vides on his youtube, for example "Intro to Clojure" series: http://www.youtube.com/user/briantwill/videos?vi…

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Post by pyvek »

obilgic wrote: post #2

These lectures are amazing. Watch "Unix terminals and shells" series for example, you will get a better understanding of what is going on behind the scenes when you run a ruby script. He deserves the be on the front page for sure. I would also encourage you to buy him a coffe through his donation button. More vides on his youtube, for example "Intro to Clojure" series: http://www.youtube.com/user/briantwill/videos?vi…

Thanks for mentioning. Looking at the domain, at first I thought it was codeschool.com which also offers video courses (which are also very good) and was going to skip over this.

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Post by jasonjei »

They just need Automata, Grammars, and Computability, one of the "classical" courses in CS theory to complete their collection. That course really makes you a better programmer in being cognizant of the shear size of problems that can't even be solved (as well as forcing you to think in terms of using tricks to bring problems into decideable space). For instance, if you ever plan to write navigation software or travel/price routing software (a la Orbitz/Hipmunk/ITA Google), computability (as well as algorithms) should be a must-know (for example, every automata course will introduce you to TSP).

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Post by mokash »

jasonjei wrote: post #8

They just need Automata, Grammars, and Computability, one of the "classical" courses in CS theory to complete their collection. That course really makes you a better programmer in being cognizant of the shear size of problems that can't even be solved (as well as forcing you to think in terms of using tricks to bring problems into decideable space). For instance, if you ever plan to write navigation software or trave…

Turing machines.
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