Re:MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems
by ghaff on Monday January 04, 2021 @09:28AM
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Getting access for free/cheap lectures and other self-guided learning materials have been a solved problem to greater or lesser degrees for probably decades. It has of course gotten even better with things like OCW and MOOCs.
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Re:MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems
by commandlinefan on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:22PM
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> a solved problem ... for probably decades
centuries, actually: you can get all of this from reading the textbook.
Re:MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems
by ghaff on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:59PM
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That's true to a certain degree. But most textbooks aren't really designed and written as standalone resources to learn a topic. For example, most don't have problems to work through and ways to evaluate how well you learned the material. Certainly there are topics you can learn on your own but in many cases just reading a book isn't going to be sufficient.