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Post your courses. I'll start:

Introduction to Logic
April 23, 2012 ~Stanford University
Professor Michael Genesereth
7 weeks

Game Theory
TBA ~Stanford University
Professor Matthew O. Jackson & Professor Yoav Shoham
7 weeks

Calculus: Single Variable ~University of Pennsylvania
August 27, 2012
Professor Robert Ghirst
12 weeks

Fundamentals of Pharmacology ~University of Pennsylvania
June 2012
Dr. Emma Meagher
4-5 weeks

Basic Behavioral Neurology ~University of Pennsylvania
June 2012
Dr. Roy Hamilton
4-5 weeks


Model Thinking ~University of Michigan
September 2012
Scott E. Page
10 weeks

Computer Science 101 ~Stanford University
April 23, 2012
Professor Nick Parlante
6 weeks

Statistics One ~Princeton
September 1, 2012
Andrew Conway
6 weeks

>> No.4608699

Online courses = waste of money

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If you have no courses yet, sign the fuck up niggers.

https://www.coursera.org/

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>>4608699
>Online courses = waste of money
>FREE Online courses = waste of money
>mfw

>> No.4608706

i take it you can't actually use these on a cv on that there's no final exam?

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>>4608702

>> No.4608715

>>4608706
Well on the site itself they say "Improve your resume", but no you don't get college credit or anything. You might get like a certificate of achievement or something I don't know.

Personally, I don't care about the rewards or credit, I just want the knowledge.

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>>4608715

>> No.4608732

Thanks for the great site, social sciences, here I come

also this, if anyone finds it new:
http://oyc.yale.edu/

>> No.4608739

>>4608732
I know, I really wanted to take Greek and Roman mythology, but as you can see my schedule is already quite full.

>> No.4608742

I signed up for the free Comp Sci course from Stanford ages ago and they said they'd email around the end of March.

On the final day of march I got an email from the course organiser saying "Sorry for the delay, it's proving more difficult to set up an online course than I had imagined. We'll give more information in the coming weeks". Some weeks passed and I got another email a few days ago asking me to sign up to Coursera online courses.

Is this the same thing? Do I need to sign up again?

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>>4608742
I don't know, but I'm taking the CS 101 class right now.

I'm sure it's not to late to sign up.

>> No.4608755

Doing AI ones (machine learning, computer vision), genetics, game theory, cryptography

I'm goin slow though, because I don't give a shit about the certificate

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I am currently taking Game Theory and will be taking statistics in the fall because it includes formal tutelage in R which I'll need for my graduate program eventually.

>>4608706
The only one I've done so far is Stanford's Game Theory and it does have a timed final. You get a certificate for completing the course with at least an average of 70%.

>> No.4608779

Thanks OP! I'll be taking CompSci 101 as well. I'm still going to school full time through the spring and working though, so I don't want to put to much on my plate.

>> No.4608792

Shit, this seems pretty cool, I had no idea this even existed.

Thank you OP.

>> No.4608798

>>4608690

Thanks OP! Such a nice guy

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>>4608779
>>4608792
>>4608798
No problem.

>> No.4608815

I don't know how many of you are taking what classes, but there's a bunch of different study groups (mostly catering to specific regions and languages (i.e. Russian study group, etc.)), but I was thinking if enough of us are taking the same course (like CS 101) we could have a /sci/ study group.

What do you think?

>> No.4608823

>>4608815

Sure.I'm down for it. I signed for CS101 and logic

>> No.4608835

>>4608690
OP is a genteperson and a scholar.

>> No.4608844

>>4608823
https://class.coursera.org/cs101/forum/thread?thread_id=113

Here you go, other people can join at leisure.

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>No Peter Thiel's Startup 101

>> No.4608851

>>4608815
I'm in for a CS101 study group. Kind of disappointed that it is for teaching you javascript and not C++, but oh well

>> No.4608852

Very cool, I never knew about other online courses besides MITx's circuit and electronics course that started up early this semester. In case anyone wants similar websites with full course formats, check out:

www.saylor.org

>Fundamentals of Pharmacology ~University of Pennsylvania
I'm definitely going to work this into my summer schedule. Thanks OP.

>> No.4608856

>>4608844
This completely removes our anonymity 0_o

>> No.4608858

>>4608856
Yes... it's as if we are actually classmates

OOoooOoOooOOOooH

>> No.4608860

>>4608851
I don't think it even teaches Java, just little bits of coding that are jumbled up that you have to put in order like a puzzle from what the course info sounds like.
Most of it is just basic things like networking, internet, and computer software rather than a course that's based around coding.

>> No.4608861

>>4608856

Doesn't really matter to me, honnestly

>> No.4608869

I deleted the study group since it seems anonymity might be a problem for a lot of people. I'll just post regular study threads on /sci/ or something, kinda like this one.

>> No.4608894

While this is a great idea, and a huge improvement over previous online verbal learning, it is still slower than just reading textbooks. Reading is faster than listening.

One bad thing about the lone studying of textbooks, is that one does not get any 'proof' that one has read it. But then again, I just want the knowledge like >>4608715

>> No.4608926

thanks OP, thought this was gonna be a "hurr durr I go to Stanford" thread. Too bad CS101 doesn't teach a language but beggars can't be choosers.

>> No.4608933

>>4608698
>>4608690
>>Calculus: Single Variable

Ohhh god that is the highest calculus course they offer. I didn't even take calc I in college, I took it in high school and skipped it in college. How's it feel knowing that I'm in my 4th semester and already have diff eqs and calc3(by my third sem) down.

>> No.4608936

>>4608933
nobody gives a fuck

>> No.4608946

> How's it feel knowing that I'm in my 4th semester and already have diff eqs and calc3(by my third sem) down.

I'm an undergrad and I'm taking / have already taken up to abstract algebraic topology and differential geometry including geometry of manifolds.

There's not point in bragging man, no one likes a pseudoelitist.

>> No.4608968

>>4608946
Isn't that second year undergrad? That's what I'll be taking next year.

>> No.4608980

>>4608933
Good for you. I'm not saying that facetiously. I'm glad there are people who aren't like me and understood and mastered math at an earlier age. It's not particularly a wish of mine that everyone share my inabilities...

>> No.4608985

>>4608968
If you're taking those courses as a 2nd year, I tip my hat to you.

Both of those courses I listed are graduate level at my Uni, not sure if they're offered as undergrad courses elsewhere.

>> No.4608993

Do you guys have anymore sites like the previous shown? I really do have a passion from learning from these sites

>> No.4609028

http://www.udacity.com/
Some thing but easier that coursera but they have some guest like Sergei Brin or Peter Norvig

>> No.4609039

>>4608985
I was joking. I'm not really taking them and I doubt we have them offered in my school

>> No.4609041

>>4609028
>a challenger appears

So which one of these CS101 courses is better? I'm leaning towards udacity since they actually teach Python instead of just bits and pieces. Will either one lead me in the wrong direction?(hs senior that wants to get a head start in CS)

>> No.4609052

wow this is pretty fucking amazing

H-HERE I GO

>> No.4609053

>>4609041
coursea is actually college type courses. Their CS courses will be closer to real CS. udacity looks more programmer oriented

>> No.4609064

Oh wow thx OP. Now I don't know what to choose or pick. Any suggestions? What is everyone else looking into?

>> No.4609073

this is the 11th time /sci/ has actually shown me something useful

>> No.4609171

Nice, just got into logic, automata, and probabilistic graphical models.

The network theory courses interested me the most, along with the analytic combinatorics, since I never encountered those courses during my undergrad before. Also signed up for those.

>> No.4609245

bumping for great justice

>> No.4609292

I was register in CS101 and CS373 on Udacity, CS101 is pretty good to beginning with python but the overall is pretty easy. For CS373, it was really interesting but not really challenging. I had 100% for both course without sweating.

On Coursera, I took Design and Analysis of Alg I, really good, interesting and some time challenging.
I'm following Model thinking right now, good teacher.
I began Game Theory but stopped because it was kind of shitty and I did't have time.
This week, I enrolled in Compiler, Logic, Machine Learning and Automata.
The Machine Learning course is really good and I think that people interested should take it.

>> No.4609304

>>4609292
Did you take classes at a university for CS? How do they compare?

>> No.4609318

OP this is fucking awesome.

Signed up for a heap of classes, will see how they go.

>> No.4609340

>>4609304
Not the guy you're asking, but I personally found it to muck around less because I guess they assumed anyone that took the time to find it and put in the effort to learn online is actually serious about the topic.

>> No.4609353

i'm a physics major and ever since I took statistical mechanics, I've been itching to learn about complex networks. There are very very few universities that teach those courses to undergrads- I know Umich is one, but I don't know of any more. Those courses make this whole thing worth it.

>> No.4609389

Accounting major here

this is going to be great to finally be able to do some Computer Science and other math and science based courses. Would never get the chance otherwise

>> No.4609499

one more bump

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>>4608690
It's really good to see my school as the forefront of free higher education.

If any of you have any questions about Stanford or the courses I'd be happy to answer them for you.

>> No.4609515

>>4609513
List your stats.

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>>4609515
High school or college?

>> No.4609540

>>4609304
I found the online course greater because it is straight forward, you don't lost time because the teacher is shitty or he didn't know where he goes.
On udacity it's even better because the video is less then 5mn long most of the time, around 1mn. You have an idea, a quiz to see if you get it with a direct feedback and at the end a homework. It's easier to focus than in a real class,

>> No.4609545

>>4609519
>>4609513
If stanford is so great why does it need departments that aren't math or physics?

>> No.4609553

>>4609545
To make money off retards willing to pay for a Gen.Ed Degree (See: Psychology).

>> No.4609560

>>4609553
Community College fucktard detected


enjoy never being able to get into grad school

>> No.4609562

>>4609560
>implying

Someone's mad.

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>>4609545
Because Stanford is not a tech school. It prepares you for a career.

One of the best examples I can give is when one of my good friends called me up for some help with his internship. He goes to MIT, yet a vast majority of MIT students in STEM fields never take a writing class in their 4 years.

He was tasked with a project by his boss, and he did the math and calculations, yet had no idea how to present his findings to his boss. Luckily for him, Stanford requires us to take 3 writing classes, and one of them tailored specifically for your major and what people in your field are looking for. I knew exactly how his boss wanted the project presented and I guided him through it. He's graduating this year and was the only MIT student to receive an offer because his reports actually made sense to his boss.

Trust me, when I heard I had to take writing classes, I was pissed. Until I realized Stanford makes them as "little englishy" as possible, and more about the practicality of communication. No analyzing dead people's poetry--just straight business.

>> No.4609619

I wish I went to stanford T_T

>> No.4609625

>>4609619
I don't

>> No.4609640

I'm nervous about signing up

fuck.

>> No.4609642

>>4609625
Yeah you probably wouldn't do well

>> No.4609648

>>4609640

Just do it.

>> No.4609742

Any time I can learn and masturbate at the same time without paying money, I'm in.