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Free Online College Courses

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:15 pm
by Verahta
There are some great computer science and programming related college courses (and every other study subject you can think of) offered by these sites for free. And many are schools like MIT, Harvard, Berkely, Stanford, and so on:

Udacity.com - Started and operated by Stanford and Google people.

Edx.org - Run by MIT, Harvard, and Berkely as well as some other top schools.

Coursera.org - Started and run by Stanford people but has hundreds of courses from like 60 universities (Stan, Udub, Duke, Yale, John Hopkins, Princeton, Brown, and many many others.)


And some other cool sites with free course materials:
http://oyc.yale.edu/ - open Yale courses
http://oli.cmu.edu/ - open Carnegie Mellon courses
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ - open Berkeley courses
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm - open MIT courseware

Re: Free Online College Courses

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:36 pm
by Jackolantern
Awesome! I think MIT was the first one to do this, and of course due to the technical focus of that school, I would say to start there for anyone interested :cool:

Re: Free Online College Courses

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:47 am
by Elvar
Great stuff brother, beyond programming there is alot of good stuff aswell! On to algebra!

Re: Free Online College Courses

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:36 pm
by vitinho444
Wait.. can i learn what they learn on college online? FOR FREE? WOW vacations here i DON'T GO!!

Re: Free Online College Courses

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:38 pm
by hallsofvallhalla
Oh nice links.

Love me some math classes!

Re: Free Online College Courses

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:16 pm
by vitinho444
hallsofvallhalla wrote:Oh nice links.

Love me some math classes!
1+1 = 2.5

That will be 5$ please :D

Re: Free Online College Courses

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:39 pm
by hallsofvallhalla

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Re: Free Online College Courses

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:28 pm
by Verahta
vitinho444 wrote:Wait.. can i learn what they learn on college online? FOR FREE? WOW vacations here i DON'T GO!!
Yes, all of those sites put real, actual college courses from those schools online, for free. The only exception is Udacity, who designs their own courses and is not a school, but is run by industry professionals from Stanford, Google, and professionals from other disciplines/schools.

I recommend these two courses for intros to computer science and computational thinking (I haven't finished them yet, but I'm going to take them again next time they are offered):

Harvard's CS50x taught by David Malan.
https://www.edx.org/course/harvard-univ ... ience/1022

David is a Senior Lecturer on Computer Science at Harvard College for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.


MIT 6.00x taught by Eric Grimson
https://www.edx.org/course/mit/6-00x/in ... cience/586

W. Eric L. Grimson is the Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a professor of computer science and engineering, and the Bernard M. Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering. He was named Chancellor of MIT in 2011.

Re: Free Online College Courses

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:48 pm
by vitinho444
hallsofvallhalla wrote:

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int VitinhosDollars = 0;
int HallsDollars = 5; 
Foreach(int dollars in HallsDollars)
{
VitinosDollars = VitinosDollars + dollars;
}
HallsDollars = 0;
hehe thank you very much good sir :D
If you need more math classes just ask.

Verahta wrote:
vitinho444 wrote:Wait.. can i learn what they learn on college online? FOR FREE? WOW vacations here i DON'T GO!!
Yes, all of those sites put real, actual college courses from those schools online, for free. The only exception is Udacity, who designs their own courses and is not a school, but is run by industry professionals from Stanford, Google, and professionals from other disciplines/schools.

I recommend these two courses for intros to computer science and computational thinking (I haven't finished them yet, but I'm going to take them again next time they are offered):

Harvard's CS50x taught by David Malan.
https://www.edx.org/course/harvard-univ ... ience/1022

David is a Senior Lecturer on Computer Science at Harvard College for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.


MIT 6.00x taught by Eric Grimson
https://www.edx.org/course/mit/6-00x/in ... cience/586

W. Eric L. Grimson is the Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a professor of computer science and engineering, and the Bernard M. Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering. He was named Chancellor of MIT in 2011.
Yeah i've only checked Udacity yet, I want to finish the HTML5 Game dev course, then i'll move to the real college courses.
One question, Udacity says that in the end they give you a "diploma" or a certificate, should i add that to my curriculum?

Re: Free Online College Courses

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:19 am
by Verahta
The Udacity courses are free, and at the end if you want a certificate showing you passed it they sell them for a fee I believe, but taking the course and learning is free.