Re:How Udacity's Greatest Effect will be in the Developing W...
by Abundnce10 on Saturday February 25, 2012 @02:24PM
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I too really enjoyed working through Udacity yesterday. It looks like they will be offering an ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURES course soon.
I hope in the future that employers will look at our 'online transcripts' from Udacity, KhanAcademy, etc. as opposed to putting so much weight on which University you went to. As you stated, I bet people will end up learning more from the courses they take from Udacity then their local Uni...
I only wish there was a similar class for Algorithms/Data Structures. Almost all other subjects, I've found good resources online which I can learn from, but MIT's old Algorithms and Data Structures class, taught by Prof.Charles Leiserson, is a far advanced class. It focuses more on the theoretical proofs, methods, than it does on implementing the actual algorithms. Not lying, I was in tatters after watching some of the lectures, lost confidence, and was convinced I would never be a good programmer. (I'm better now, and more confident in my abilities).
Lets hope there's more good stuff online.