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http://www.coursera.org

Site is bad ass and offers a lot of college level courses for free. I'm looking at some of their CS courses and so far they're pretty nice. You don't actually get college credits, but depending on the college offering the course you can get a cert saying you pass X course from <insert college name here>.

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If you start with the 2 algorithms courses, you will get more out of the programming courses. The same guy also teaches https://www.coursera.org/course/introACpartI , which you could take alongside a programming course; that 1 course is about 60% of what they teach in a 4-yr CS program.
 
There is also this from MIT, Berkeley, and Harvard - https://www.edx.org/

I love that this is becoming more prevalent. It's perfect for people like me who don't care about a piece of paper and just simply want to know more.
 
JarredLv said:
There is also this from MIT, Berkeley, and Harvard - https://www.edx.org/

I love that this is becoming more prevalent. It's perfect for people like me who don't care about a piece of paper and just simply want to know more.
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And we are back to what education should be in the first place! Too bad this isn't the reason that most people go to school, if it was that piece of paper would mean much more.
 
jryan21 said:
If you start with the 2 algorithms courses, you will get more out of the programming courses. The same guy also teaches https://www.coursera.org/course/introACpartI , which you could take alongside a programming course; that 1 course is about 60% of what they teach in a 4-yr CS program.
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My original Algorithm courses probably weren't as good and it's been several years since I've taken them. I'm on the Algorithm I course right now and the only thing that I find disappointing is using Java, but I can get over that.
 
heh, get the professor + class name, and search for it on Youtube. There's a decent chance you'll find all the lectures for a course videotaped, and on there.

The real courses that you find on Youtube tend to be a hell of alot harder than the ones on that site. For example, there's the Machine Learning course, which isn't overly difficult.

Then watch one of his actual lectures:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u4G23_OohI]Lecture 2 | Machine Learning (Stanford) - YouTube[/ame]

Quite a bit different. :)
 
Kiopa_Matt said:
heh, get the professor + class name, and search for it on Youtube. There's a decent chance you'll find all the lectures for a course videotaped, and on there.

The real courses that you find on Youtube tend to be a hell of alot harder than the ones on that site. For example, there's the Machine Learning course, which isn't overly difficult.

Then watch one of his actual lectures:

Lecture 2 | Machine Learning (Stanford) - YouTube

Quite a bit different. :)
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With youtube you don't actually get assignments graded by the professor. You also don't get to interact with them. I'd rather take a slightly easier course and have access to the professor and assignments than just watch a video on youtube.
 
coursera and udacity are both amazing platforms. I'm taking 2 coursera courses right now and they are very involved, definitely on par with some of my undergrad work.
 
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