Stanford's free introduction to databases Regustration now open

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There was a thread last year that introduced the free online courses available from some ivy league schools. Figured with all that scraped data you might be interested in

Introduction to databases by Stanford

This ten-week public course covers database design and the use of database management systems for applications. It includes extensive coverage of the relational model, relational algebra, and SQL. It also covers XML data including DTDs and XML Schema for validation, and the query and transformation languages XPath, XQuery, and XSLT. The course includes database design in UML, and relational design principles based on dependencies and normal forms. Many additional key database topics from the design and application-building perspective are also covered: indexes, views, transactions, authorization, integrity constraints, triggers, on-line analytical processing (OLAP), JSON, and emerging NoSQL systems.
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wtf, I took the Solar Cells, Fuel Cells, & Batteries course at Stanford a couple years ago, but I had to pay for the course... Now they're giving it away for free?
 
SirKonstantine said:
These free courses don't count for a degree though.
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If you want a degree go enroll. Some people don't give a shit about that quarter million dollar piece of paper. Believe it or not some of us actually enjoy learning for fun
 
transistor said:
wtf, I took the Solar Cells, Fuel Cells, & Batteries course at Stanford a couple years ago, but I had to pay for the course... Now they're giving it away for free?
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Anyone can walk into a lecture for free, the lecturer's not gonna turn away someone who's actually interested in what they have to say. (Unless it's totally full)
 
dmnEPC said:
If you want a degree go enroll. Some people don't give a shit about that quarter million dollar piece of paper. Believe it or not some of us actually enjoy learning for fun
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love learning for fun...been following along the tech entrepeneurship class and guarantee you at least one of those projects will yield a biz that does 1m next year.

as someone who interviews people for 6 figure a year jobs every week I can testify that a degree means nothing (or very little: basically you can finish something) I care more about applied knowledge and achievements than anything.
 
+rep!

I've been using Databases for years, but I've never seen any kind of training for it. I learned off access databases at a job I sort of fudged my way into, and I've been SELECTING and INSERTing every since :p

The main thing for me is to see what kind of LMS Stanford is using to serve the classes/testing and see how useful it is for experienced and new users alike.


Thanks again for posting!
 
shawnhag said:
as someone who interviews people for 6 figure a year jobs every week I can testify that a degree means nothing (or very little: basically you can finish something) I care more about applied knowledge and achievements than anything.
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Did a couple of other ones on different sites. Not enough time to learn everything in the universe...
 
A Skype group could provide a little accountability to anyone that decides to reg
 
Or you could just go buy a programming and/or database book, and read it...

Not sure about you guys, but the only classes I've ever took where an instructor could explain something better than the text book were upper level math classes.

I'm a full time developer but I graduated with an actuarial science degree. I knew more about programming and databases than 99% of comp sci graduates because my idea of fun is writing code on a saturday night.

My point is that classes are pointless, they just get degrees. If you really want to learn something, pick up a good book or read online documentation.
 
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