Ask HN: Best courses you took?

[nitishmd]

What are some courses that you took and thoroughly enjoyed and learnt a lot? May be its mooc, open courseware, openly available university courses. If you can post links that would be great.

[narwally]

If you haven't had much functional programming experience I can't recommend Dan Grossman's Programming Languages class on Coursera enough.[0] You go through three languages in the course, Racket, ML, and Ruby.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang

[kazinator]

Alain Fournier's CS 414 (computer graphics) at University of British Columbia.

He tried to give me 110% in the course but said the silly mainframe wouldn't accept the value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Fournier

Oh my, I had no idea he died of lymphoma 15 years ago.

[bryansaxon]

I really enjoyed Stanford's Startup Engineering course on Coursera. There are no open sessions, but I believe you can still access the content.

Here is the link:

https://www.coursera.org/course/startup

[brudgers]

Finite Automata on Coursera. Jeff Ullman actively participates in the discussion forums and he [along with Aho] literally wrote the book.

https://www.coursera.org/course/automata

It is typically offered once a year in the late fall.

[Caveat] The course appeals to me for the same reason TAoCP does: it is conceptually rich and no holds barred...by which I mean that technical detail isn't withheld for the sake of infotainment, and as a result it shows me how little I know by exposing the depth of possible human understanding.

[arnold_palmur]

Second this. Although a bit dry at times, Professor Ullman's course was very thorough in terms of content - another cool note, he was Sergey Brin's Ph.D advisor.

[sbaus]

I'm taking a course on Angular and it's been one of my favorite experiences so far with online learning.

The link is: https://watchandcode.com/

[steve_g]

Discrete Optimization with Pascal Van Hentenryck on Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization

It doesn't look like there's any open sessions now.

[mavelikara]

Shriram Krishnamurthi's Programing Languages course (CS1730): http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/

[nitishmd]

How does this course compare to coursera's Programming Languages?

[mavelikara]

I have not (yet!) taken Dan Grossman's course, so I can't compare them - sorry.

[zhte415]

Model Thinking on Coursera