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Re:MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for indepe... by kaylarose on Friday January 14, 2011 @11:02AM (#2103949)
Also another good "beginner" (was already a programmer, and it was still a great course) course that actually has everything - lectures, notes, textbook, assignments, tests and answers! - available free online is the UC Berkley CS61A course.

The course teaches the fundamentals of Computer Science with Scheme (Lisp) and the book is SICP (a really great all-around CS book). I watched all the lectures, and did most of the assignments over a month or two last year and learned a lot. Sometimes you have to Google around for old tests/answer keys, but resources for the entire course are online. I highly recommend it if you are remotely interested in programming.

Multiple Semesters of Audio/Video Lectures are on iTunesU

Resources from the Summer 2010 Course:http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/su10/

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Re:MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for indepe... by Starmonkey on Friday January 14, 2011 @02:31PM (#2105056)
Great tip, thanks!

If you're like me, and sometimes prefer to have some visual with your audio, Berkley also provides webcasts of these lectures. Here, for example, is Spring '08 of CS61A:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906...

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