crackp0t

http://www.coursera.org

Site is bad ass and offers a lot of college level courses for free. I'm looking at some of their CS courses and so far they're pretty nice. You don't actually get college credits, but depending on the college offering the course you can get a cert saying you pass X course from <insert college name here>.

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faceblogger

Thanks.

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Ben89

Wow, there are some sick ass courses on this website.

I'm not sure if you've heard of Learn to code | Codecademy but it's also an excellent, interactive way to learn different programming languages.

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jryan21

If you start with the 2 algorithms courses, you will get more out of the programming courses. The same guy also teaches https://www.coursera.org/course/introACpartI , which you could take alongside a programming course; that 1 course is about 60% of what they teach in a 4-yr CS program.

cougarclaws

Lots of free courses here: University of Reddit

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jhoffy22

That is tight! How did I not hear of this before?

JarredLv

There is also this from MIT, Berkeley, and Harvard - https://www.edx.org/

I love that this is becoming more prevalent. It's perfect for people like me who don't care about a piece of paper and just simply want to know more.

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jhoffy22

And we are back to what education should be in the first place! Too bad this isn't the reason that most people go to school, if it was that piece of paper would mean much more.

shindig

Stanford has a few CS courses they do online....

AI: https://www.ai-class.com/
Machine learning: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
Databases: Introduction to Databases

You don't get college credit but you get a letter from the professor that teaches the classes at stanford saying you passed.

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dbm009

This has probably been posted somewhere, as it has become somewhat popular, but is still a great start:
Free Online Course Materials | Courses | MIT OpenCourseWare

along with:

Stanford School of Engineering - Stanford Engineering Everywhere

and for some broader MS/HS/College levels:

Khan Academy

Cood call on Coursera crackp0t, site looks great.

Dwight Schrute

These are not university courses, but there is some great stuff here if you want to brush up on history, Greek debt crisis, math, basic computer science, and more.

Khan Academy

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crackp0t

My original Algorithm courses probably weren't as good and it's been several years since I've taken them. I'm on the Algorithm I course right now and the only thing that I find disappointing is using Java, but I can get over that.

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crackp0t

Khan is legit. I'm going to be taking some math classes on there. I can't wait to get started.

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Kiopa_Matt

heh, get the professor + class name, and search for it on Youtube. There's a decent chance you'll find all the lectures for a course videotaped, and on there.

The real courses that you find on Youtube tend to be a hell of alot harder than the ones on that site. For example, there's the Machine Learning course, which isn't overly difficult.

Then watch one of his actual lectures:


Quite a bit different.

crackp0t

With youtube you don't actually get assignments graded by the professor. You also don't get to interact with them. I'd rather take a slightly easier course and have access to the professor and assignments than just watch a video on youtube.

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chigga102

I'd like to add Programr | Learn.Code.Share For the people who want to have a community for learning to program.

conv3rsion

coursera and udacity are both amazing platforms. I'm taking 2 coursera courses right now and they are very involved, definitely on par with some of my undergrad work.

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