Review/Recommend/etc Online classes... - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2016, 01:36:38 am
content: There are a lot of questions of the form "How do I learn X."And these days there are a lot of online classes of various sorts that claim to teach "X", some for nominal or significant charges, many for free. These can be televised For-credit classes by major universities, Massive Online Open Classes (MOOCs) explicitly designed for online access, mere videotapes of classrooms, or even vendor-produced training.I propose that this thread be used to post reviews of such classes...

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2016, 01:47:44 am
content: Algorithms, Part 1 and Part 2.Offered by Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick of Princetonhttps://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partIhttps://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partIII was really impressed by this class; Sedgewick has a very clear lecturing style, and the class seems well designed for online use. It has been repeating "regularly."here's the description from Coursera:QuoteI only watched lectures, without doing the assignments, and it helped fill in holes in my education (along with things that have been developed since I left college.) The assignments also looked more "interesting" than typical online classes, without being out-of the range of material taught in class.

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2016, 01:55:23 am
content: "How to use Git and GitHUB"https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-use-git-and-github--ud775By Caroline Buckey and Sarah Spikes of Udacity. (Free, on-demand, with exercises.)This is a pretty good introduction to Version Control Software in general, and Git in particular. A topic frequently not mentioned much at typical universities (?) but important in industry.

author: JacquesBBB
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2016, 01:36:05 pm
content: For those who want to step out from the Arduino IDE,and understand how to program a MCU, I strongly recommend to follow the MOOCfrom Austin University "Embedded Systems - Shape The World"by Jonathan Valvano and Dr. Ramesh Yerraballihttps://www.edx.org/course/embedded-systems-shape-world-utaustinx-ut-6-03xThe target platform is the Ti Launchpad Tiva C which are very powerfulevaluation boards similar to the Arduino, but which you can get at low price from Ti or any main distributor.The Austin team have done an extraordinary job with their course, as you will be able to directly program a board using a professional IDE (Keil) with step to step instructions and automatic correction and evaluationwith their special module.You will have to buy the EK-TM4C123GXL board which is only 12.5$, and has a on board debugger.The new release of the lectures has started January 20, 2016, but has no strict deadlinesand you can step in at any time until the end of the course in May 2016.Even if after that you want to go back to Arduinos, you will have learned all the fundamentals.You will learn how to use a debugger,and will be able to easily adapt to any other MCU. You can also choose to continue on Ti MCU, which you can alsoprogram through an Arduino like interface, Energia.

author: Shock
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2016, 03:44:24 pm
content: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/online-resources-for-self-education/Or how about just use the sticky at the top of the forum? Would be a lot easier.https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/electronics-primers-course-material-and-books/