After MIT, Stanford has done it too – they are providing 10 free online courses for free, accessible via YouTube, iTunes, MP4 and the like. These courses included a Programming Methodology course, a Programming Abstractions course, and a Programming Paradigms course – which cover basic programming techniques in Java and C++. Oh, and that’s not all. There are two more courses of special interest to Natural Language Processing researchers – an NLP course by Christopher Manning and a Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng. All the courses are quite interesting, energetic, and easy to follow…
As an aside, take a look at some of the Linux themes on this website – I find these to be especially aesthetic and appealing…
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