Going to recommend the most widely taken course at Yale at the moment, which fortunately is now available as a MOOC on coursera, "The Science of Well Being": <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being</a><p>This is a positive psychology course based on work by Seligman et al.
This list mostly passes the gut check: the courses near the top are almost universally high quality, and quite reputable.<p>Now, why did I say "mostly" and "almost"?<p>Two reasons:<p>1. The best technical courses are on Udacity. You may disagree but I think enough people would agree that it ought to be somewhere on the list.<p>2. Learning to learn is popular but its kind of vacuous. (You may disagree, and this time I may be in a tiny minority who hold this view). So I think the sentiment reader might need tweaking.<p>Still, all in all, a great resource. I am bookmarking it and am glad you did this.
Hey HN,<p>Check out HN.Academy and let me know what you think. It's the result of mining the HN archives for references to online courses and then ranking them and displaying all references in one place.<p>Ranking currently takes into account HN stories (points) and comments (sentiment, karma, estimated points).<p>I had started with a much broader set of course providers, but Coursera ended up swamping the rankings of pretty much all the other providers. edX is also in the rankings with a few courses. I plan to add more providers but as of now none of them will impact the top rankings.<p>If you were looking to start a new learning endeavor in the new year... here ya go.<p>Best,
Yaj
I'd throw this resource in the ring since it has the most material out of anything on the list:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230314" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230314</a><p>Awesome page, though!
Is there a sort of "axiomatic high school maths" course, that builds up from the basics without handwaving? i.e. that covers the actual reasons and proofs for things, not just the mechanics/tricks/techniques. The way geometry is taught.<p>Some might be beyond high school level, like fundamental theorems of arithmetic (unique prime factorization) and algebra (polynomial factors/zeros). There's also non-integer exponents, defining reals etc.<p>All this stuff is used in High School but must be taken <i>on faith</i>. Good for believers, bad for skeptics.<p>Or is this just <i>Mathematics 101</i>? [my engineering maths didn't cover it]
What about high-quality intros and tutorials you can complete in less time [than a serious academic course] to acquire practically reasonable understanding of particular technologies/subjects?
The calculus course appears twice (same eventual URL), with different HN citations.<p>> Calculus: Single Variable Part 1 - Functions
Coursera · University of Pennsylvania <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/single-variable-calculus" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/learn/single-variable-calculus</a>
I took the one and only Linear Algebra course cited in this list and did not care for it. I found Strang's MIT course on the subject much better. I seem to recall reading other's had the same experience.<p>Perhaps we need a separate index that's just YT (and Vimeo?)?
The pop-up to subscribe every 2 seconds is extremely off-putting. Made me want to just close the tab multiple times. The curated content only kept me from doing it.<p>Edit: Nice work! Next steps would be to sort and collate similar topics.
I like the idea. Would be interesting to see
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Recommendations need to decay by date more.<p>Eg, the Johns Hopkins University "Data Science" course isn't worth doing (unless maybe it has been updated?), and note that most of the comments are pre-2017.<p>It's an R course, but it teaches pre-Tidyverse R.<p>Also it's not a great course in that the assignments aren't synced to the lectures - you need to know lots of stuff which haven't been touched on to complete the assignments at each stage. (Source: I did it in 2014 or 15)
I am curious to know how you built it, do you keep polling for the new a items on the HN? How do you figure out if it's a course? Do you use regexes for it or something more sophisticated / complecated?
Looks like the list counts complaints that a course does not exist as a recommendation, or why is the Crypto II course on coursere in the list? What was the original start date, September 2014 or 2013?
Any list like this one for finance / investing material? Thanks for the resource - will be put to good use. I’d love it if there were categories for paid, non-paid and overall most recommended.
The biggest concern I have with this is that it promotes what's already popular to the top.<p>This means Blockchain and crypto are there and I doubt that's the most valuable thing you can learn this year.
I’m planning to enroll in statistical mechanics course. Anyone else wants to team up and study as a group? We may finish faster that way. Email me: paras1987 <at> gmail
I'm looking for, and haven't yet found, a practical-as-possible, intermediate language design |& compiler design MOOC video course. Ideas appreciated.
This is a useful site, but you should probably disclose on it somewhere that you're getting affiliate revenue from every person clicking through and signing up for Coursera courses through your links...