Curious as to those that have signed up, which ones have you actually completed and thought they were any good?
I've tried a few, but my illness of lazyitis kicks in and I don't finish them. I intend to complete the one I am starting, just to see if I can.
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I did the machine learning course with Andrew Ng at Coursera. It was fantastic. Better than some of the Uni courses that I did.
I've 'done' a few of the Udemy ones on various things that were a few hours of video that you could follow along with. They were the same as watching a good tutorial video on Youtube.
I've also had a quick look at few of the Udemy ones I've got here for free that were pretty lousy.
In short, the variation in free courses is huge.
This quote from an article about High School kids who built their own self-driving vehicle:
"For the most part, I’m self-taught. I took a series of C programming language classes a few years ago from Stanford’s GiftedandTalented.com program. I learned the Python programming language on my own. In eighth grade, I took advanced-placement calculus and statistics courses, which enabled me to take multivariate calculus in ninth grade. We are fortunate at my school because we have a professor from Foothill College who teaches this course. This class turned out to be useful for understanding machine-learning algorithms."
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/ieee-roundup/blogs/blog/high-sc…
So what you can do with these free courses and some hard work is really staggering.
I also have a friend who did a course on how to do podcasts on Udemy and has made her own podcast that sounds impressively professional.
I started that course a while back, but I used kids as an excuse not to finish. I'll get back to that, that is the one I will do! I'll also stop eating junk food, exercise, play with my kids more… ahh (profanity) it, PlayStation 4 is easier.
I've gone through a few but mainly those that don't require strict attention and in the background while I'm doing other menial tasks. The latest one was on bitcoin, was comprehensive and his advice/predictions from a couple of years ago was spot on. I've also started a fair few which I gave up on after a short time; with hundreds to choose from my initial attention span is limited.
Usually. As I often say when faced with chocolate: I've often thought of giving up, but then I tell myself I'm not a quitter. :)
Lolno.
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