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I watched several MOOCs and OCW courses but this one was the first and the best I've ever came across. Most of the MOOC videos are still boring and I need to sp

I watched several MOOCs and OCW courses but this one was the first and the best I've ever came across. Most of the MOOC videos are still boring and I need to speed them up to 1.25x but SICP was so great, I could spend hours talking to my peers about every episode! My notes of it are here: http://devblog.me/sicp.html http://devblog.me/sicp.html

xmonkee 13y ago
For me Dan Grossman's course on Programming Languages takes the cake. Best course I've ever done. Taught SML, Racket and Ruby enough to touch on so many concepts (FP, recursion, algebraic datatypes, polymorphism,... the list goes on). For the assignments a small programming langauge was implemented in almost all of these, showing different ways of solving the expression problem. It was amazing.
- RoboTeddy 13y ago
  Happen to have a link?
  - sateesh 13y ago
    Here you go: https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
    - joel_perl_prog 13y ago
      "No sessions available." I guess I expected a video archive, not unlike the SICP playlist as it exists on YouTube in various forms.
      - doneata 13y ago
        You can find the videos of the Programming Languages class together with the slides and handouts here: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/13sp/ http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/13sp/
      - bcbrown 13y ago
        You can email him and ask him to make them available. I've done that for other coursera courses that didn't publish the videos after the course finished.
- epsylon 13y ago
  Agreed, Dan Grossman's PL is in my top 3 of the best MOOCs with Yaser Abu-Mostafa's Machine Learning and Dan Boneh's crypto 1. (Though there are some pretty damn good runner-ups as well)
- Nick_C 13y ago
  Completely agree. I've done Scala, Algorithms, and one other and Dan's course stands out for its interest, enthusiasm and clarity. Plus it uses functional programming! What's not to like.
  - xmonkee 13y ago
    Haha exactly the same 3 courses I did last year. Doing any currently?
    - Nick_C 13y ago
      Nah, having a "summer break +" that's extended a bit longer ;). I plan to do a crypto course at some stage. + Southern hemisphere
exDM69 13y ago
> Most of the MOOC videos are still boring and I need to speed them up to 1.25x but SICP was so great The audience in this video is professional programmers, so it isn't such a slow pace as most of the lectures in online courses, which were given to an undergrad audience.
kgabis 13y ago
I really enjoyed Programming Paradigms from Stanford (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps8jOj7diA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps8jOj7diA0).
minikomi 13y ago
Totally agree. Gerald Sussman's enthusiasm not only for the language, but for teaching in general, goes a long way to making these so enjoyable as well.

xmonkee 13y ago

For me Dan Grossman's course on Programming Languages takes the cake. Best course I've ever done. Taught SML, Racket and Ruby enough to touch on so many concepts (FP, recursion, algebraic datatypes, polymorphism,... the list goes on). For the assignments a small programming langauge was implemented in almost all of these, showing different ways of solving the expression problem. It was amazing.

RoboTeddy 13y ago
Happen to have a link?
- sateesh 13y ago
  Here you go: https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
  - joel_perl_prog 13y ago
    "No sessions available." I guess I expected a video archive, not unlike the SICP playlist as it exists on YouTube in various forms.
    - doneata 13y ago
      You can find the videos of the Programming Languages class together with the slides and handouts here: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/13sp/ http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/13sp/
    - bcbrown 13y ago
      You can email him and ask him to make them available. I've done that for other coursera courses that didn't publish the videos after the course finished.
epsylon 13y ago
Agreed, Dan Grossman's PL is in my top 3 of the best MOOCs with Yaser Abu-Mostafa's Machine Learning and Dan Boneh's crypto 1. (Though there are some pretty damn good runner-ups as well)
Nick_C 13y ago
Completely agree. I've done Scala, Algorithms, and one other and Dan's course stands out for its interest, enthusiasm and clarity. Plus it uses functional programming! What's not to like.
- xmonkee 13y ago
  Haha exactly the same 3 courses I did last year. Doing any currently?
  - Nick_C 13y ago
    Nah, having a "summer break +" that's extended a bit longer ;). I plan to do a crypto course at some stage. + Southern hemisphere

exDM69 13y ago

> Most of the MOOC videos are still boring and I need to speed them up to 1.25x but SICP was so great The audience in this video is professional programmers, so it isn't such a slow pace as most of the lectures in online courses, which were given to an undergrad audience.

kgabis 13y ago

I really enjoyed Programming Paradigms from Stanford (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps8jOj7diA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps8jOj7diA0).

minikomi 13y ago

Totally agree. Gerald Sussman's enthusiasm not only for the language, but for teaching in general, goes a long way to making these so enjoyable as well.