Books and MOOCs are best when supplemented by studying alongside peers. I've been leading discussion groups for years as we either go through books or take cou

Books and MOOCs are best when supplemented by studying alongside peers. I've been leading discussion groups for years as we either go through books or take courses. (An archive of some of them at http://wiki.apache.org/lucy/LucyBookClub http://wiki.apache.org/lucy/LucyBookClub ). Right now, a group of us are going through the MIT OCW Gilbert Strang Linear Algebra course ( http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011/index.htm http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebr... ), along with Coding the Matrix from Philip Klein at Brown University ( http://codingthematrix.com/ http://codingthematrix.com/ ). I'm in San Diego, but most of the time I've recruited study partners from either $dayjob or the open source communities I'm active in rather than met people locally. Coursera Meetups haven't worked out so well for me. I wish I had somebody to study DSP and audio programming with. :)