Ask HN: Which courses/classes are you excited about in 2025?

[mofeeta]

I'm thinking of signing up for one of David's courses: https://www.dabeaz.com/courses.html. I've heard they're intense and very well done.

Anyone have any other courses or classes (not necessarily tech-related) they're looking forward to in 2025?

[codetrotter]

In 2025 I want to:

- Learn to scratch like Hip-Hop DJs.

- Make one techno track that could pass off as something that a local DJ in some random city would play and that the people in that room would enjoy.

I have previously taken in-person piano lessons, and I've spent quite a bit of time in Ableton and with MPC X, and with a few different keyboards and a drum machine. I have a mid-range DJ controller at home, the Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3.

Music is a hobby for me, and I cannot dedicate anywhere near full time to it in 2025. But if I can do these two things, then 2025 would be a great year in terms of my music hobby.

[dvt]

Taking a 3-month Salsa dance class starting early January. I've never been good at dance so I'm low key kind of excited. Might meet someone, too, you never know :)

[viewtransform]

Walked into a drop-in salsa dance class at the Berkeley YWCA two decades ago.

Got hooked from the first class and it was a gateway drug to swing and argentine tango. Hope you have a good time.

[SanjayMehta]

“Fight attendants” made me chortle.

[viewtransform]

LOL. I edited that sentence out.

[SanjayMehta]

Spoilsport!

[emmanueloga_]

Just curious, is this with some particular dance company or studio/instructor?

[moribvndvs]

A Japanese language course at the community college after getting sort of burned out on apps and Anki decks. Hoping I can make friends with some native speakers, or at least other students interested in practice.

[sshine]

A course made a big difference for me after solo’ing through the first part of covid.

[doctorpangloss]

MathAcademy was good but I just ran out of time every day to do it, and it was way too remedial for me. I was using it to learn advanced math relevant for my work, but it was taking me over stuff for standardized testing for high schoolers. The creator is active here and I sincerely think it’s a good product, but not right for me.

[Emphere]

+1. I was excited for it and it sounded nice in theory but in practice it was just too much of a slog for me. I picked it up because I have a non-traditional math background and while I more or less know calc + LA, I do lack fluency with the concepts. Perhaps I am wrong, but at my level I feel that I don't need to go through 10 trivial variations of the same theme and many foundational concepts could be massively condensed. I am instead progressing much faster just picking up a textbook and referring back to precalculus books to fill in holes where needed.

[Shosty123]

https://www.mathacademy.com/ for learning math through spaced repetition.

https://www.smart-biology.com/ for learning biology visually.

Also, the 3D graphics and compiler courses on pikuma

[qrush]

Still trying to get a food co-op off the ground here in Boston, and I am looking forward to the annual virtual conference of live videos that are basically the latest-in-industry news and updates about patterns and more others are doing from the Food Co-op Initiative:

https://www.youtube.com/user/foodcoopinitiative

[daft_pink]

I really want to take the how to solve it with code jeremy howard course, but it was already full by the time that I heard about it. So I probably shouldn’t be mentioning it on this thread. LOL

https://solveit.fast.ai

[edanm]

Same here. And I heard about it like a day after they talked about it... :)

Hoping another class opens up.

[suranyami]

Not a course, as such, but reading “Measurement” by Paul Lockhart, of “A Mathematician’s Lament fame.

I’ve never read anything that so clearly communicates and leads you into a state of mind that COMPELS you to prove mathematical conjectures from first principles.

I found myself furiously sketching geometric proofs and simplifying algebraic conundrums with an enthusiasm I haven’t experienced in decades.

And a course on sewing for beginners and continuing Japanese.

[DamnYuppie]

I am finally going to learn to play the Piano. I have tried in the past and found I really enjoy the practicing yet I would let life get in the way and fall off.

[DanielVZ]

Same here! I started by myself going through Bartok’s mikrokosmos which has helped me a ton with reading but after getting my digital piano fixed in January (only the left half makes any sound) I’m starting with my own lessons.

[lewisleclerc]

That's great. Where are you learning it from?

[DamnYuppie]

Previously I used my iPad with an app on it so was going to do the same thing again.

[carlinm]

Are you planning to use something online to learn? If so, what?

[DamnYuppie]

I use my iPad and a few of the apps. It is quite fun actually, you can stop, restart parts you don't like, put it into loops, speed up sections or slow them down.

[dSebastien]

My upcoming Knowledge Management course: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/knowledge-management-for...

Sorry for the self plug, but I want to help as many people as possible discover and leverage Knowledge Management.

[CamperBob2]

Based on how helpful I found his earlier videos, I'm interested in checking our Andrej Karpathy's new ML course ( https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n?tab=readme-ov-file ) when it's ready.

[cebert]

I’ve started learning piano using the Simply app paired with a keyboard. It’s been surprisingly fun and a nice mental break for me.