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How can I actually use this course? When I try to Sign Up as a student I need a Registration Code. I don't have such thing since I am located in a different cou

How can I actually use this course? When I try to Sign Up as a student I need a Registration Code. I don't have such thing since I am located in a different country.

mym1990 4y ago
The irony of their headline “free for all, designed for you”.
- frozencell 4y ago
  They are talking about the self-reproducing privileged wealthy "American" parents children caste. You should have noticed the cute bunny paws as an indicator :p
  - frozencell 4y ago
    Why the downvotes? They have a good privacy but they lie with their "free for all" marketing and ask to provide the name of the school or organization the user is working with.
henry_viii 4y ago
You can access the curriculum if you sign up as a Mentor/Volunteer.
rizhao 4y ago
I can shine some light on this since I worked on the project from day 0, before it was even called CMU CS Academy. The initial vision was to provide a free, online, world class CS curriculum for high school students. What this means is that CS Academy's curricula are designed to be taught in a classroom to high school students. Teachers and their classroom environment were considered as first class citizens in the design, which means a lot of CS Academy's value is its complement of (still totally free) teaching resources and professional development seminars. teachyourselfcs.com et. al. solve a different, but equally important, use case for learners who want to teach themselves CS in a self-paced fashion. CS Academy chose to attack the high school CS curriculum because there was (and still is) a clear lack of world class solutions, and we felt we were best suited to take on that particular challenge. That being said, according to some of the comments, it sounds like there are workarounds to sign up as a Mentor if you just want to play around with some of it. Disclaimer that these are my opinions only, and not those of CMU/CMU CS Academy. I am no longer actively working on the project.

How can I actually use this course? When I try to Sign Up as a student I need a Registration Code. I don't have such thing since I am located in a different country.

mym1990 4y ago

The irony of their headline “free for all, designed for you”.

frozencell 4y ago
They are talking about the self-reproducing privileged wealthy "American" parents children caste. You should have noticed the cute bunny paws as an indicator :p
- frozencell 4y ago
  Why the downvotes? They have a good privacy but they lie with their "free for all" marketing and ask to provide the name of the school or organization the user is working with.

henry_viii 4y ago

You can access the curriculum if you sign up as a Mentor/Volunteer.

rizhao 4y ago

I can shine some light on this since I worked on the project from day 0, before it was even called CMU CS Academy. The initial vision was to provide a free, online, world class CS curriculum for high school students. What this means is that CS Academy's curricula are designed to be taught in a classroom to high school students. Teachers and their classroom environment were considered as first class citizens in the design, which means a lot of CS Academy's value is its complement of (still totally free) teaching resources and professional development seminars. teachyourselfcs.com et. al. solve a different, but equally important, use case for learners who want to teach themselves CS in a self-paced fashion. CS Academy chose to attack the high school CS curriculum because there was (and still is) a clear lack of world class solutions, and we felt we were best suited to take on that particular challenge. That being said, according to some of the comments, it sounds like there are workarounds to sign up as a Mentor if you just want to play around with some of it. Disclaimer that these are my opinions only, and not those of CMU/CMU CS Academy. I am no longer actively working on the project.