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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by carusooneliner on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:52PM (#16746593)
> Jennifer Widom, Databases, Stanford. This is not the flashiest of a topic, but oh boy was it well organized.

Couldn't agree more. I took this course in 2011 but didn't have a need for working with databases until 2014. Three years after I took the course I was able to jump in and work fluently on databases -- Mongo, Sqlite, Firebase, etc. The least I can say is the course helped me internalize database concepts.

This course has the right amount of handholding yet challenges you enough so you acquire long-lasting skills.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by rjbwork on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:53PM (#16747251)
Ditto. I was able to get my foot in the door of industry due to this course and Scott Allen's PluralSight C# courses.

I've now built 2 data warehouses and helped with maintenance on another. It's not my main focus, but it's nice to be able to do it myself when the work calls for it.

I got hired at my first job out of college due to the C# ones and I've been working in C# since then, with a smattering of other languages here or there.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by samueldavid on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:38PM (#16747747)
+1 for Scott Allen
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by Malcx on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:26PM (#16747612)
Is it this one?

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/...

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by vsundar on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @05:42PM (#16749605)
Looks like it got broken up into smaller mini-courses available here: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/abou...

Main page: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by Xunxi on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:01PM (#16748532)
Yes there was a couple on Coursera but they scrapped it for God knows what reason. https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~1196954
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by artimaeis on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:53PM (#16747262)
Chiming in with support of this course.

I studied portions of it before I got my first "real" tech job (not a call-center) and it put me on a path straight towards my career as a developer. I go back to the course every year or so and try to pick more gems out of it -- it's truly fantastic.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by wyclif on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:34PM (#16751124)
That was the first MOOC I took as well. It turned out to be an excellent entry point for databases. Perhaps because it was one of the first Stanford MOOCs, the quality of it was high.
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