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What is remarkable about Khan Academy is that it was done. It was a huge effort. And it was done from scratch, out of nothing. Not in order to promote some crap
by schiptsov 15y ago
What is remarkable about Khan Academy is that it was done. It was a huge effort. And it was done from scratch, out of nothing. Not in order to promote some crapware like Silverlight or Flash, but with commitment to teach poor people.
Collecting videos around the net and put it in one page is useless idea. There are plenty of really great courses from MIT, Yale, Berkeley and they were already aggregated on sites like academicearch.
And of course, no one could ever beat 6.001 from MIT ^_^ It is art. Btw, if you like to improve your education in CS courses from MIT are enough. For general education visit Yale. For everything else there is Berkeley. CS69A is a masterpiece.
- jhchen 15y agoDon't forget Stanford: http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx. Their intro to programming courses are some of the best.
- jackowayed 15y agoI wish they had the new 107 on there. It's a very different course now (all C and assembly). Unfortunately the Stanford Center for Professional Development does most of the video taping now and is very resistive to putting videos online because they make something like $1k from people who pay just to watch the videos and $5k from people who are officially enrolled and get exams and assignments and such. Luckily, there are some newer recordings at http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php I hear 161 (Algorithms) is a great class. 229 (Machine Learning) is supposed to be pretty good too.
- JacobIrwin 15y agoI started with MIT's [Open Courseware] Intro to Programming... got me very interested in learning more about CS.
- Brewer 15y agoHarvard's CS50 is a good course too.
- achompas 15y agoAgreed, especially for anyone lacking in experience. You get broad language exposure (C, JS, PHP, some SQL) and some great introductory problem sets.
- soegaard 15y ago> What is remarkable about Khan Academy is that it was done. It was a huge effort. So true. It is the completeness that is the most impressing.
- kunjaan 15y agoWhat is CS69A? My google search didnt return anything relevant other than this page itself.
- kbrackbill 15y agoThat must have been a typo; the course is CS61A.
- VB6_Foreverr 15y ago"Collecting videos around the net and put it in one page is useless idea." I wouldn't say it's a useless idea but I am surprised that the site is getting such a lot of attention considering there is nothing there at all yet.