>Online lectures don't offer exercises The OP wasn't asking about just online lectures, it was asking about MOOCs. The best MOOCs I've taken strike a really g

>Online lectures don't offer exercises The OP wasn't asking about just online lectures, it was asking about MOOCs. The best MOOCs I've taken strike a really good balance between lectures, additional reading, and exercises that are automatically graded. A lot of books don't have any exercises, and the vast majority of the ones that do have no method of verifying it was done correctly. So maybe today the best C++ book is better than the best C++ MOOC today, I've no doubt that a MOOC could be designed far better than any book could ever be. And I'd bet that's exactly what the OP was trying to find.