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Re: Anyone interested in free college classes?
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2011, 12:28:47 am »

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Re: Anyone interested in free college classes?
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2011, 12:51:33 am »

Also bookmarked. I will do so much math this year.
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2011, 12:55:05 am »

After you're done with those, PM me and I'll recommend you some beginning textbooks that you should be able to buy fairly inexpensively in their international editions.  At that point, you should be done with anything a recorded lecturer would be capable of teaching you.
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Re: Anyone interested in free college classes?
« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2011, 02:56:16 am »

Also bookmarked. I will do so much meth this year.

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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2011, 06:29:56 am »

The first lecture played the start of Debussy's Clair de lune. Now I'm so going to learn how to play that.
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Re: Anyone interested in free college classes?
« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2011, 11:00:27 am »

Fantastic stuff.  I just wish that people did a better job publicizing these sorts of wonderful resources.  This is the sort of free information sharing that the internet is supposed to use to help the world.
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Re: Anyone interested in free college classes?
« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2011, 11:17:28 am »

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« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2011, 09:59:22 pm »

 I just came across this website while roaming the internet http://www.khanacademy.org/. It made me think of this thread, hope someone gets some use out of it.
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« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2011, 10:12:00 pm »

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Re: Anyone interested in free college classes?
« Reply #24 on: September 12, 2011, 10:12:44 pm »

Wolfram Alpha is another good tool.

Also, Wikitaxi. I have Wikipedia on an external hard drive. All 150ish gigabytes of it, text, images, sounds, et cetera. It's astonishingly useful on car trips. I can carry my brain extension in my pocket!
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Re: Anyone interested in free college classes?
« Reply #25 on: January 18, 2012, 08:35:01 pm »

More Stanford classes, all free, all starting sometime in the next month or so. BUMP.
http://jan2012.ml-class.org/ Machine Learning
http://www.nlp-class.org/ Natural Language Processing (AI)
http://www.modelthinker-class.org/ Model Thinking (complex systems)
http://www.pgm-class.org/ Probabilistic Graphical Models
http://www.crypto-class.org/ Cryptography
http://www.algo-class.org/ Design & Analysis of Algorithms
http://www.security-class.org/ Computer Security
http://www.infotheory-class.org/ Information Theory
http://www.hci-class.org/ Human Computer Interaction
http://www.anatomy-class.org/ Anatomy
http://www.greenbuilding-class.org/ Making Green Buildings
http://www.game-theory-class.org/ Game Theory
http://www.saas-class.org/ Software as a Service
Note: I may have missed a few; to find all of em, click one of these links and scroll to that bottom of the page for the full list.

In general, a bunch of CS stuff with a few outliers. And I though I was going to be busy this quarter before finding these. :P
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« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2012, 08:42:35 pm »

This is... AMAZING. I didn't know education could be so free. I'll have to study some of these over the summer.
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« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2012, 08:53:32 pm »

Even more; though not in the really nice, interactive format of those others.
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
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« Reply #28 on: January 18, 2012, 08:54:15 pm »

Protip: If you're enrolled at a college, take these classes anyway. Then pay the wildly reduced fees to challenge the course and get credit anyway.
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« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2012, 02:27:41 am »

Don't think anyone's posted it yet, the people who did the AI course on the internet are doing an introduction to programming class.

Looks interesting.
Reposted from the programming thread. Link to the site's main page: http://www.udacity.com/
Also, Googling udacity lead to an interesting result: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700221392/Stanford-professor-resigns-launches-Udacity-Free-online-university-level-computer-science.html
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Online higher education got a big boost this week when Sebastian Thrun, a professor of computer science at Stanford, announced he was stepping down to start Udacity — an online educational venture. Udacity's goal is to provide free university-level computer science classes to anyone interested in advancing their tech knowledge. Its first course, available this month, is titled "Building Your Own Search Engine."
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