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Ask HN: Taking which online or offline courses have humbled you?

2 pointsby curious16over 2 years ago
By humbling I don&#x27;t mean in a negative way; rather in a way that made you really appreciate the subject by giving you a new mental model by rewiring your brain.<p>For me:<p>Programming Languages A, B and C by Prof Dan Grossman on Coursera.<p>It taught me the inter relations between different programming paradigms and how to pick up new programming languages. More clearly what to look for in the documentation to form a working mental model of a new programming language.

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mindcrimeover 2 years ago
I&#x27;m not sure if &quot;humbled&quot; is the right word or not, but Calculus II had a somewhat profound effect on me. I think it was studying Calc II that I first started to feel like I could finally start to see at the least the shadows of the inherent appeal of math. I also felt like Calc II was a big step towards understanding the level of math that starts to have real world applications outside of contrived &#x2F; toy examples that you find in textbooks.