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Re:Coursera: 33 Universities, 200 Courses, 1.3 Million Students on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @05:52AM (#4542878)
Take a look at No Excuse List [0], it has a lot of learning sites listed.

[0] http://www.noexcuselist.com/

Re:Thoughts on being a programmer on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @04:31AM (#4385123)
Check out Smart::Comments module in Perl [1].

It allows the specially-formatted comments to produce debugging output.

From the synopsis:

    use Smart::Comments;
     
    my $var = suspect_value();
     
    ### $var
     
    ### got: $var
     
    ### Now computing value...
     
    # and when looping:
     
    for my $big_num (@big_nums) {  ### Factoring...      done
        factor($big_num);
    }
     
    while ($error > $tolerance) {  ### Refining--->      done
        refine_approximation()
    }
     
    for (my $i=0; $i<$MAX_INT; $i++) {   ### Working===[%]     done
        do_something_expensive_with($i);
    }

[1] https://metacpan.org/module/Smart::Comments