Ask HN: As of 2022, which are some of the best MOOCs to get into CS/programming?

Posted by curious16 on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:41AM
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Re:Ask HN: As of 2022, which are some of the best MOOCs to g... by tanganian on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:41AM (#32518116)

Not MOOCs but college courses open to audit. Hands down the 3 introduction courses at UC Berkeley: CS61A, CS61B, CS61C. It's CS50 on steroids, spread across 3 courses. Tried a lot of things before finding those, nothing comes close.

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Re:Ask HN: As of 2022, which are some of the best MOOCs to g... by curious16 on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:51AM (#32518160)

Are you a Berkeley student? If not, can you answer a few questions:

1. Which versions of the courses did you do? I mean which semester versions. Can you link to them?

2. Why do you say nothing comes close? What is so special about them?

3. Did they make you confident as a programmer?

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Re:Ask HN: As of 2022, which are some of the best MOOCs to g... by tanganian on Friday August 19, 2022 @04:46PM (#32525719)

Not a berkeley student.

Because I tried a lot of courses and before finding this https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/ortnef/a_..., it should be self explanatory.

Nope, they are just introductory courses, but they are good foundations to build upon.

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Re:Ask HN: As of 2022, which are some of the best MOOCs to g... by jstx1 on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:11AM (#32517969)

It's still CS50 - great teaching, super accessible, starts from scratch, doesn't dumb things down - highly recommend for complete beginners.

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Re:Ask HN: As of 2022, which are some of the best MOOCs to g... by debanjan16 on Friday August 19, 2022 @01:07AM (#32517704)

I don't know about MOOCs much. But there is a book called How to Design Programs. You can read that. And it is available for free at https://htdp.org/

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