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> Jennifer Widom, Databases, Stanford. This is not the flashiest of a topic, but oh boy was it well organized. Couldn't agree more. I took this course in 2011

> Jennifer Widom, Databases, Stanford. This is not the flashiest of a topic, but oh boy was it well organized. Couldn't agree more. I took this course in 2011 but didn't have a need for working with databases until 2014. Three years after I took the course I was able to jump in and work fluently on databases -- Mongo, Sqlite, Firebase, etc. The least I can say is the course helped me internalize database concepts. This course has the right amount of handholding yet challenges you enough so you acquire long-lasting skills.

rjbwork 9y ago
Ditto. I was able to get my foot in the door of industry due to this course and Scott Allen's PluralSight C# courses. I've now built 2 data warehouses and helped with maintenance on another. It's not my main focus, but it's nice to be able to do it myself when the work calls for it. I got hired at my first job out of college due to the C# ones and I've been working in C# since then, with a smattering of other languages here or there.
- samueldavid 9y ago
  +1 for Scott Allen
artimaeis 9y ago
Chiming in with support of this course. I studied portions of it before I got my first "real" tech job (not a call-center) and it put me on a path straight towards my career as a developer. I go back to the course every year or so and try to pick more gems out of it -- it's truly fantastic.
Malcx 9y ago
Is it this one? https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/about https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/...
- Xunxi 9y ago
  Yes there was a couple on Coursera but they scrapped it for God knows what reason. https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~1196954 https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~1196954
- vsundar 9y ago
  Looks like it got broken up into smaller mini-courses available here: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/about https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/abou... Main page: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html
wyclif 9y ago
That was the first MOOC I took as well. It turned out to be an excellent entry point for databases. Perhaps because it was one of the first Stanford MOOCs, the quality of it was high.

rjbwork 9y ago

Ditto. I was able to get my foot in the door of industry due to this course and Scott Allen's PluralSight C# courses. I've now built 2 data warehouses and helped with maintenance on another. It's not my main focus, but it's nice to be able to do it myself when the work calls for it. I got hired at my first job out of college due to the C# ones and I've been working in C# since then, with a smattering of other languages here or there.

samueldavid 9y ago
+1 for Scott Allen

artimaeis 9y ago

Chiming in with support of this course. I studied portions of it before I got my first "real" tech job (not a call-center) and it put me on a path straight towards my career as a developer. I go back to the course every year or so and try to pick more gems out of it -- it's truly fantastic.

Malcx 9y ago

Is it this one? https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/about https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/...

Xunxi 9y ago
Yes there was a couple on Coursera but they scrapped it for God knows what reason. https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~1196954 https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~1196954
vsundar 9y ago
Looks like it got broken up into smaller mini-courses available here: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/about https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/abou... Main page: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html

wyclif 9y ago

That was the first MOOC I took as well. It turned out to be an excellent entry point for databases. Perhaps because it was one of the first Stanford MOOCs, the quality of it was high.