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Show HN: Curated List of Online Learning
Hi HN,
The discussion pops up regularly about which MOOCs and courses to take so I figured I'd start a curated list of recommendations. It's by no means exhaustive (and it's just the ones I know) and is quite broad.
If you had any suggestions, feel free to create a PR or Issue, or even respond to this post and I will add it.
I'd love to be able to capture quality somehow, but not sure of the way to go about that just yet.
https://github.com/tombasche/professional-development
- ksaj 6y agoHave you heard of Complexity Explorer? https://www.complexityexplorer.org https://www.complexityexplorer.org I've taken some courses and they're really quite intense. The bonus is that they are free (subsidized by Santa Fe Institute). It's definitely a niche audience, but what they are teaching is very current. I occasionally see links to some of the instructors' other works here on HN, so it is probably a good fit. Also, there is Lynda.com. Where I live, you get free access to Lynda courses with your library card. Pretty amazing deal. I don't know how wide spread that is, though. I've taken some of their coding courses years ago and they were pretty good. They're constantly updated, so sometimes the search function is a bit hairy though.
- tcbasche 6y agoThanks! Added them now :) Interestingly looks like Lynda is just LinkedIn now
- ksaj 6y agoI don't fully understand what's going on there. They've been saying for years that it is "now" called LinkedIn Learning, but to date, it is still Lynda.com and so are pretty much all references to it. It looks like LinkedIn bought it and then forgot about the branding migration. Even my library still just calls it Lynda. I just logged in now to make sure that what I said about library cards was still true. It is. BTW: Since it is a curated list, you could probably forgo the quality rating. The idea of curation is that all of your links should be high quality. Nobody intentionally promotes crappy curated items (unless of course that's the intent).
- kaetemi 6y agohttps://www.codecademy.com/ https://www.codecademy.com/ Codecademy is nice. It's got an editor along with preview next to the course material. Works well as a quick refresher for a bit of self-review too.
- tcbasche 6y agoThanks :) I think my wife did a bit of Codecademy a while back and yeah the interactivity is really nice.
- kevinguay 6y agoPluralsight has excellent software dev and other IT/CS-related courses. https://www.pluralsight.com https://www.pluralsight.com
- tcbasche 6y agoAh yes! How could I forget. Thanks :)
- jdc 6y agohttps://www.classcentral.com/providers https://www.classcentral.com/providers
- kgarten 6y agoI love to check https://media.ccc.de/ https://media.ccc.de/ from time to time. A lot of variety on random nerd topics https://www.skillshare.com/ https://www.skillshare.com/ Has some useful courses ...
- jlalfonso21 6y agohttps://www.coursera.org https://www.coursera.org this site offer courses (free and paid) and valid certifications
- Nilb0gz 6y agowww.freecodecamp.com is really good and is free. I haven't seen it in your list. I done some of they're stuff for front end/Javascript development in 2016, now i see they have different paths for back/DevOps/Qa. Also they have a really good YouTube channel with lots of introductory videos