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Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy. It was well re

by pasiaj 7y ago

Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy. It was well received by the Finnish general populace. The Finnish government currently acts as the EU presidency, and decided to open access to all Europeans.

jotm 7y ago
That's great, it would be even better if it was open to everyone, you know, in line with EU values (democracy, education for all, freedom, etc.) :/
- anttipoi 7y ago
  It is. You're free to start learning. Today's announcement means more translations in European languauges.
- JTuck394 7y ago
  Agreed. I'll probably get down voted for speaking the truth but at this point opening the course up to EU citizens is doing nothing but protecting power and privilege of (white) Europe. The course should be opened to everyone in the world. Really disappointed but what do you expect? Just goes to show how far we have left to go...
  - bentsku 7y ago
    It is free for all. It just means EU languages. The title was incomplete here on HN.
  - rat9988 7y ago
    The white term is terribly misplaced.
    - vinay427 7y ago
      Yeah, what about white people in Switzerland. /s I was genuinely surprised to see the mention of a skin color, even in parentheses which seemed like an attempt to make it one of their points while avoiding justifying or explaining it.
  - paavohtl 7y ago
    The course is and has always been available in all countries; this announcement is about translating it to more languages.
- fctorial 7y ago
  Registration page doesn't ask you for official credentials and the country selection menu has all of the countries. Educating 1% of European population is just a personal goal.
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Ramiuz 7y ago
The work done by them has been incredible. Their course on OO with Java was a lifesaver as a student, helping me with a lot of concepts and filling the gaps, to start working as a SE. While I didn't have the time to complete it, their fullstack course seems also very good, has someone completed it that can share their experience?.
- victor106 7y ago
  Do you have links that you can share to these courses?
  - SebaSeba 7y ago
    https://fullstackopen.com/en/ https://fullstackopen.com/en/ https://www.mooc.fi/en/#courses https://www.mooc.fi/en/#courses
- tekkk 7y ago
  The basic programming course I & II in University of Helsinki were in my opinion the best courses of the whole CS degree. And by "them" I think you are referring to the people who made that particular course, the folks at RAGE research group, led by Arto Hellas and Matti Luukkainen :). Great people, and really done great things for the quality of CS education in I'd say Finland in general. Haven't done the full-stack course but it seemed ok, it irks me a little bit that it's still in JavaScript but oh well, you can't have it all.
sethx 7y ago
Reaktor <3 !

by pasiaj 7y ago

jotm 7y ago

That's great, it would be even better if it was open to everyone, you know, in line with EU values (democracy, education for all, freedom, etc.) :/

anttipoi 7y ago
It is. You're free to start learning. Today's announcement means more translations in European languauges.
JTuck394 7y ago
Agreed. I'll probably get down voted for speaking the truth but at this point opening the course up to EU citizens is doing nothing but protecting power and privilege of (white) Europe. The course should be opened to everyone in the world. Really disappointed but what do you expect? Just goes to show how far we have left to go...
- bentsku 7y ago
  It is free for all. It just means EU languages. The title was incomplete here on HN.
- rat9988 7y ago
  The white term is terribly misplaced.
  - vinay427 7y ago
    Yeah, what about white people in Switzerland. /s I was genuinely surprised to see the mention of a skin color, even in parentheses which seemed like an attempt to make it one of their points while avoiding justifying or explaining it.
- paavohtl 7y ago
  The course is and has always been available in all countries; this announcement is about translating it to more languages.
fctorial 7y ago
Registration page doesn't ask you for official credentials and the country selection menu has all of the countries. Educating 1% of European population is just a personal goal.

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Ramiuz 7y ago

The work done by them has been incredible. Their course on OO with Java was a lifesaver as a student, helping me with a lot of concepts and filling the gaps, to start working as a SE. While I didn't have the time to complete it, their fullstack course seems also very good, has someone completed it that can share their experience?.

victor106 7y ago
Do you have links that you can share to these courses?
- SebaSeba 7y ago
  https://fullstackopen.com/en/ https://fullstackopen.com/en/ https://www.mooc.fi/en/#courses https://www.mooc.fi/en/#courses
tekkk 7y ago
The basic programming course I & II in University of Helsinki were in my opinion the best courses of the whole CS degree. And by "them" I think you are referring to the people who made that particular course, the folks at RAGE research group, led by Arto Hellas and Matti Luukkainen :). Great people, and really done great things for the quality of CS education in I'd say Finland in general. Haven't done the full-stack course but it seemed ok, it irks me a little bit that it's still in JavaScript but oh well, you can't have it all.

sethx 7y ago

Reaktor <3 !