Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?

99 pointsby dexxterabout 9 years ago

Fellow Hackers, I am bored and want to learn something new.Have you watched any interesting/useful online courses recently on Coursera/Udemy/edX/OpenUniversity/others?It can be free/paid and I am open to any discipline.

23 comments

ericzawoabout 9 years ago

Joel Spolsky did a really good one-hour primer on Excel. If you squirm at the thought of spreadsheet anything, this video is for you <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c</a>

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benjismithabout 9 years ago

There's a really excellent course on starting a startup, from Sam Altman (President of YCombinator).<a href="http://startupclass.samaltman.com/" rel="nofollow">http://startupclass.samaltman.com/</a>It was delivered as a live lecture at Stanford, with presentations by Sam Altman himself, as well as Dustin Moskovitz, Paul Graham, Adora Cheung, Peter Thiel, Alex Schultz, Kevin Hale, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Parker Conrad, Brian Chesky, Alfred Lin, Patrick and John Collison, Ben Silbermann, Aaron Levie, Reid Hoffman, Keith Rabois, Ben Horowitz, Emmett Shear, Hosain Rahman, Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy, and Tyler Bosmeny.My favorite presenter is Reid Hoffman, but all the lectures are awesome. If you're a startup founder, you owe it to yourself to watch them all...

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okketabout 9 years ago

I really enjoyed the free "CS193P" course from Stanford with Paul Hegarty. It is not 100% up-to-date but still a good start, covering Xcode/iOS8/Swift:<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-8-apps-swift/id961180099" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-8-apps-swi...</a>

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SixSigmaabout 9 years ago

Gilbert Strang's linear algebra<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c</a>Walter Lewin's Classical Mechanics<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo28HOrhipc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo28HOrhipc</a>for the content and the delivery

_kyranabout 9 years ago

CS50 <a href="https://cs50.harvard.edu/" rel="nofollow">https://cs50.harvard.edu/</a>David Malan in the best lecturer I've ever seen.Introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming. This course teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web development. Languages include C, PHP, and JavaScript plus SQL, CSS, and HTML. Problem sets inspired by real-world domains of biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming. Designed for concentrators and non-concentrators alike, with or without prior programming experience

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colundabout 9 years ago

I enjoyed Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera. Why don't you give it a shot.

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jamesharringtonabout 9 years ago

This is the best javascript video i've ever seen. if you wait they do deals all the time, no need to pay $200 it will go on sale usually around $15-$20<a href="https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/" rel="nofollow">https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/</a>

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abraham_sabout 9 years ago

CSE341: Programming Languages by Dan Grossman<a href="http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/13wi/#lectures" rel="nofollow">http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/13wi/#lectur...</a>

askldfhjkasfhdabout 9 years ago

Coursera, learning how to learn.

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joshschreuderabout 9 years ago

These are paid, and not exactly a course but the Destroy All Software screencasts are great, and cover a lot of topics like shell scripting, VIM / EMACS, testing, refactoring etc.<a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts</a>They're by Gary Bernhardt of Wat fame, which is also worth a watch for its presentation style and amusing content:<a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat</a>

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unixheroabout 9 years ago

<a href="https://www.udemy.com/an-entire-mba-in-1-courseaward-winning-business-school-prof/learn/" rel="nofollow">https://www.udemy.com/an-entire-mba-in-1-courseaward-winning...</a>

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geekfactorabout 9 years ago

Coursera/UPenn's Aerial Robotics course (<a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/robotics-flight" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/learn/robotics-flight</a>) and more broadly the robotics sequence.I'm taking now for a diversion (just started) and expect to learn a bit about quadrotor mechanics, sensors & control systems.

quicky123about 9 years ago

This guy is an amazing C#/.Net trainer as well as object oriented programming concepts. Great for people coming from a Javascript background. <a href="http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/</a>

blabla_blubluabout 9 years ago

I did Creative Problem Solving through Coursera and had a great time participating in the class projects.There are some great tools which you can use in your everyday life to think innovative solutions to problems. The exercises were incredible fun as well.<a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/creative-problem-solving" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/learn/creative-problem-solving</a>Another course which I highly recommend is Learning How To Learn <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn</a>

rajathagasthyaabout 9 years ago

Algorithms by Robert Segdewick and Cloud Computing Concepts on Coursera. First is an essential, second is a really good intro into distributed systems.

YesThatTom2about 9 years ago

Introduction to Operations Management Professor Christian Terwiesch brilliantly and understandably explains the math behind "operations".... which explains Lean, Agile, DevOps and everything from running a restaurant to a doctor's office.<a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-operations" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-operations</a>

guzmanovichabout 9 years ago

Robert Sapolsky`s lectures on human behavioral biology.Fascinating, funny and gives insights into many different topics like cultural differences and nationalism.<a href="http://youtu.be/NNnIGh9g6fA?list=PL150326949691B199" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/NNnIGh9g6fA?list=PL150326949691B199</a>

kleer001about 9 years ago

Anything else from Brady Haran is pretty fun and educational. Not exactly in the spirit of pedantry and sit-down-and-take-notes, but really fun and engaging (like all good teachers should be, I say)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos</a>etc...

martinniabout 9 years ago

Getting started with GO with Andrew Gerrand. Not only did it teach me the basics of GO but showing his keystrokes demystified vim as well :)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KmHtgtEZ1s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KmHtgtEZ1s</a>

Hortinsteinabout 9 years ago

Artificial Intelligence for Robotics Programming a Robotic CarSebastian Thrun (former leader of Google and Stanford's autonomous driving teams that won the DARPA challenge) teaches a class focusing on the basic methods in Artificial Intelligence to support autonomous vehicles, including: probabilistic inference, planning and search, localization, tracking and control, all with a focus on robotics. Programming examples and assignments apply these methods to building self-driving car like experiments.Free course!<a href="https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-for-robotics--cs373" rel="nofollow">https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-for-r...</a>

bltabout 9 years ago

CS 61c lectures from UC Berkeley. Computer architecture. Ideal if you are good with data structures / algorithms but the machine still feels like magic. It is empowering to understand what the machine is really doing.

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hackerboosabout 9 years ago

Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl is a good starter course on Rails.<a href="https://www.railstutorial.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.railstutorial.org/</a>

THEUWabout 9 years ago

Course on programming in R: <a href="https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-python-for-data-science" rel="nofollow">https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-python-for-data-sc...</a>