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Ask HN: Best courses you took?

17 points by nitishmd 11y ago

What are some courses that you took and thoroughly enjoyed and learnt a lot? May be its mooc, open courseware, openly available university courses. If you can post links that would be great.

bryansaxon 11y ago
I really enjoyed Stanford's Startup Engineering course on Coursera. There are no open sessions, but I believe you can still access the content. Here is the link: https://www.coursera.org/course/startup https://www.coursera.org/course/startup
zhte415 11y ago
Model Thinking on Coursera
sbaus 11y ago
I'm taking a course on Angular and it's been one of my favorite experiences so far with online learning. The link is: https://watchandcode.com/ https://watchandcode.com/
brudgers 11y ago
Finite Automata on Coursera. Jeff Ullman actively participates in the discussion forums and he [along with Aho] literally wrote the book. https://www.coursera.org/course/automata https://www.coursera.org/course/automata It is typically offered once a year in the late fall. [Caveat] The course appeals to me for the same reason TAoCP does: it is conceptually rich and no holds barred...by which I mean that technical detail isn't withheld for the sake of infotainment, and as a result it shows me how little I know by exposing the depth of possible human understanding.
- arnold_palmur 11y ago
  Second this. Although a bit dry at times, Professor Ullman's course was very thorough in terms of content - another cool note, he was Sergey Brin's Ph.D advisor.
steve_g 11y ago
Discrete Optimization with Pascal Van Hentenryck on Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization It doesn't look like there's any open sessions now.
kazinator 11y ago
Alain Fournier's CS 414 (computer graphics) at University of British Columbia. He tried to give me 110% in the course but said the silly mainframe wouldn't accept the value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Fournier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Fournier Oh my, I had no idea he died of lymphoma 15 years ago.
narwally 11y ago
If you haven't had much functional programming experience I can't recommend Dan Grossman's Programming Languages class on Coursera enough.[0] You go through three languages in the course, Racket, ML, and Ruby. [0] https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
mavelikara 11y ago
Shriram Krishnamurthi's Programing Languages course (CS1730): http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/ http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/
- nitishmd 11y ago
  How does this course compare to coursera's Programming Languages?
  - mavelikara 11y ago
    I have not (yet!) taken Dan Grossman's course, so I can't compare them - sorry.

17 points by nitishmd 11y ago

What are some courses that you took and thoroughly enjoyed and learnt a lot? May be its mooc, open courseware, openly available university courses. If you can post links that would be great.

bryansaxon 11y ago

I really enjoyed Stanford's Startup Engineering course on Coursera. There are no open sessions, but I believe you can still access the content. Here is the link: https://www.coursera.org/course/startup https://www.coursera.org/course/startup

zhte415 11y ago

Model Thinking on Coursera

sbaus 11y ago

I'm taking a course on Angular and it's been one of my favorite experiences so far with online learning. The link is: https://watchandcode.com/ https://watchandcode.com/

brudgers 11y ago

Finite Automata on Coursera. Jeff Ullman actively participates in the discussion forums and he [along with Aho] literally wrote the book. https://www.coursera.org/course/automata https://www.coursera.org/course/automata It is typically offered once a year in the late fall. [Caveat] The course appeals to me for the same reason TAoCP does: it is conceptually rich and no holds barred...by which I mean that technical detail isn't withheld for the sake of infotainment, and as a result it shows me how little I know by exposing the depth of possible human understanding.

arnold_palmur 11y ago
Second this. Although a bit dry at times, Professor Ullman's course was very thorough in terms of content - another cool note, he was Sergey Brin's Ph.D advisor.

steve_g 11y ago

Discrete Optimization with Pascal Van Hentenryck on Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization It doesn't look like there's any open sessions now.

kazinator 11y ago

Alain Fournier's CS 414 (computer graphics) at University of British Columbia. He tried to give me 110% in the course but said the silly mainframe wouldn't accept the value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Fournier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Fournier Oh my, I had no idea he died of lymphoma 15 years ago.

narwally 11y ago

If you haven't had much functional programming experience I can't recommend Dan Grossman's Programming Languages class on Coursera enough.[0] You go through three languages in the course, Racket, ML, and Ruby. [0] https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang

mavelikara 11y ago

Shriram Krishnamurthi's Programing Languages course (CS1730): http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/ http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/

nitishmd 11y ago
How does this course compare to coursera's Programming Languages?
- mavelikara 11y ago
  I have not (yet!) taken Dan Grossman's course, so I can't compare them - sorry.