News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Review of the First Three Johns Hopkins Coursera Data Science Courses. Parent comment

Re:Review of the First Three Johns Hopkins Coursera Data Sci... by sanderjd on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @11:45AM (#7744361)
My interest was piqued by this article, but upon initial investigation, I'm having trouble stomaching putting $50 toward learning how to use github... Any reason I shouldn't just skip ahead?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Review of the First Three Johns Hopkins Coursera Data Sci... by rmb177 on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @11:56AM (#7744424)
The $50 is an optional fee for the Signature Track. If you pay for this track, Coursera adds some extra checks to validate your identity and issues you a "Verified" certificate.

You can still take all of the courses for free and get a certificate, but Coursera won't validate that you actually did the coursework.

I'm guessing you could pick and choose to pay for only certain classes, but you have to pay for all of them to earn the overall "Specialization" certificate.

See the following url for details: https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1?utm...

[ Parent | on HN ]