What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

Herb Gross's ultra-classic old-school chalkboard delivery of "Calculus of Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra" should not be missed:

https://youtu.be/BOx8LRyr8mU

It turns out he also produced a complete series on the precursor material, "Single Variable Calculus" as well, which I only just now discovered:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-si...

This professor has a great delivery and a ton of enthusiasm for the subject material, (but you can't just watch it, to absorb it you have to take notes, maybe recreate the examples in Python or something).

Related:

1. Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591291

2. Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826722

3. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042

4. Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245125

Found some mind-expanding, really edifying courses in these thread.

There's also a website dedicated to MOOCs, and some underrated gems are there: Class Central.

There was a recent list in freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-cours...

Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...

MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...

I am quite fond of the three molecular biology courses from MIT on edx [1][2][3]. Not only are the lectures great, but they also have spaced repetition built in. The exercises are often great counterfactual questions that encourage deep understanding.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-1-dna-repl...

[2] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-2-transcri...

[3] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-3-rna-proc...

MIT's 16.687 - Private pilot ground school. If you want to become a private pilot or start your career, this is the place to begin. The professors are approachable and the content is comprehensive. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-687-private-pilot-ground-scho... all of the videos for the lectures are available on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63cUdAG3v31...

"The Making of Modern Ukraine" by Timothy Snyder: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz...

As Prof. Snyder mentions in his introductory lecture, it is kind of wild that there are zero other classes, at any American university, focusing specifically on Ukraine given its importance in the current geopolitical climate.

Prof. Snyder is a great lecturer and the dynamics that shape Ukraine are fascinating and useful for understanding European history more broadly.

I really liked The Theoretical Minimum lectures on classical and quantum mechanics by Leonard Susskind (suggestion: google up the guy, he’s cool) at Stanford. You can buy books, but the lectures are all free on YouTube.

Classical mechanics playlist can be found here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129 and then there’s quantum mechanics available too, should be easily discoverable. And also there’s just https://theoreticalminimum.com/

Not sure if they qualify to be a “true” uni course though, because in this case nobody’s gonna give you assignments and grades :)

Negotiating Salary by the havard business school: https://pll.harvard.edu/course/negotiating-salary

gilbert strang's linear algebra https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D. he has a few other linear algebra themed courses on there. very good because (1) he’s an incredible teacher, and (2) linear algebra is beautiful

Yale's American Revolution by Joanne Freeman

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDA2BC5E785D495AB

Her enthusiasm, depth of knowledge and breadth of perspective make for a contagious, enlightening and thought provoking learning experience.

Cryptography I by Dan Boneh.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto (note even though it says crypto it is NOT related to blockchain crypto).

Human Behavior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...

Innovation https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sts-081-innovation-systems-for-s...

Databases by prof. Widom, from Stanford. Currently the course is at edX, and split into 5 mini-courses. Everything in the course is well thought out and apparently polished and perfected over years of teaching practice and experience. There is nothing useless in the video lectures, and the course homework probes every topic from the lectures.

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ydatabases-databases

Songwriting, at Coursera, from Berklee College of Music. The guy just sits in a dark room, and explains the process of writing lyrics to songs. He just explains it very well.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/songwriting-lyrics

The Science of the Solar System (Planetary Astronomy)

by Caltech Professor Mike "plutokiller" Brown

https://www.coursera.org/learn/solar-system

I really liked this course. Here's the blurb:

Learn about the science behind the current exploration of the solar system in this free class. Use principles from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology to understand the latest from Mars, comprehend the outer solar system, ponder planets outside our solar system, and search for habitability in our neighborhood and beyond. This course is generally taught at an advanced level assuming a prior knowledge of undergraduate math and physics, but the majority of the concepts and lectures can be understood without these prerequisites. The quizzes and final exam are designed to make you think critically about the material you have learned rather than to simply make you memorize facts. The class is expected to be challenging but rewarding.

It is also taught at Caltech, see https://mikebrown.caltech.edu/teaching/science-solar-system

Jeremy Siskind's jazz piano courses taught out of Fullerton College.

https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzclass/

This is a bit of a cheat because these courses are not free ($50USD for California residents and around $400 for non-CA residents) but they are so good that I had to mention them.

I am nearing the end of the Level II course and have learned so much stuff. They force you to do so many things that you otherwise would not do. Basically, ever week you have to post a video demonstrating what you learned from the previous week. And the video is in a public discussion forum with the other students so there is this incentive to do an extra good job. And he gives great feedback on your assignments.

All of Michael Sugrue's (former Princeton professor) lectures on YouTube are phenomenal. They single-handedly inspired me to study philosophy. His style is eloquent but off-the-cuff, he is so knowledgeable and ties together the history of philosophy so gracefully that all the lectures left me enraptured.

Example: https://youtu.be/d-vcItYxM9U

Big fan of steve brunton's control bootcamp series. Helped me through my control systems courses greatly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeN...

Great for robotics, or anything where you need to control complex physical systems, from f1 cars to 3d characters in games

This one is really amazing: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by Christine Heyes, learnt so much!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyuvTEbD-Ei0JdM...

Open Yale course on the philosophy of death is great.

https://oyc.yale.edu/death/phil-176

University of Helsinki provides free courses on Python, Java, Data Analysis and so on: https://www.mooc.fi/en/

The one I've enjoyed watching more than once: Death with Shelly Kagan, Yale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8&list=PLEA18FAF1A...

Andrej Karpathy has an introduction to AI series on YouTube that deserves an honorable mention.

I am quite a fan of Andrew Ng's courses on machine learning. Well made, improved over time as he got more experienced, and he is just a likable guy frankly.

A series of distributed systems courses from UIUC at coursera where you learn about systems design, distributed algorithms, and has you build projects like a distributed DB, implementing algorithms like gossip protocols, etc. in C++:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing

MIT: Alexander and Ava Amini http://introtodeeplearning.com/

I've heard only the best things about Andrew Ng's machine learning course but never came around to do it. It is pretty old by now and with the dramatic development in recent times I wonder how relevant it still is?

Quantopian introduction to quantitative trading

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRFLF1OxMm_UL7WUWM31i...

MIT 18.S096 Topics in Mathematics w Applications in Finance

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63ctJIEC1Un...

Aswath Damodaran on corporate finance, valuations, investment philosophies

https://www.youtube.com/@AswathDamodaranonValuation/videos

khan academy, a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Harvards CS50 course changed my life. It was the first course that got through to me about how to code. Without that course and the enthusiasm of Professor David Malan I wouldn’t be where I am now and I’d be stuck falling back on an electrical engineering degree which bores me to tears.

cs50.net

Cryptography I by Dan Boneh (Stanford University)

Programming Languages by Dan Grossman (University of Washington)

Both are on Coursera.

MIT OCW Signals and Systems is excellent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xaaeop7gJ8&list=PLADC1A1B7F...

Financial Markets by Robert Shiller https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252

Justice

https://pll.harvard.edu/course/justice?delta=0

This website has a long story of teaching tech. Almost every french programmer have made their first step thanks to them. It started with PHP about 15 years ago as leSiteDuZero and became https://openclassrooms.com/en/courses (now available in English) in my opinion the best place to get started on any professional topic. programing language, Career, Management.

Frederic Schuller's course of Gravity and Light, covering General Relativity. It has a few tactical gaps but it will give you everything you could ever practically need.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeEvEPtX_0S6vxxiiNPrJbLu...

Anyone found a good course on matrix calculus? The OCW course doesn't have any videos:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s096-matrix-calculus-for-mach...

Everything by MIT Open Course Ware

"Awakening from the meaning Crisis" by John Vervaeke

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5e...

More humanities than STEM but I'm a fan of damn near anything out of Yale's open courses. Personal recommendations are the Introduction to the Theory of Literature w/ Prof. Fry and the recent course on Ukrainian history. Both are fairly intro level in terms of structure but the details and depth don't suffer too badly for it. There's more interesting stuff like a class on Dante's Divine comedy so it really is mostly just a question of navigating the video library.

I'm looking for a course that uses tools like WinDbg and ETW and memory dumps to diagnose crashes, hangs, etc... It would need to include an introduction to basic assembly language because without that you don't get very far with WinDbg.

I'd like to learn about some of the stuff that Bruce Dawson talks about on his blog: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/

Stanford, The Fourier Transform and its applications:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1780FAF4A29FE679

Helped me through signals and systems. The lecturer is fantastic.

CS50 is Harvard's introduction to computer science course. It's pretty good. https://cs50.harvard.edu

I really enjoyed the free content on Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/). I'm not sure if it's "university" but their content was presented well and I came away learning new things about math, python and ML.

This one From Yale is really good.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0

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5.111x Chemistry by Catherine Drennan on MiT OCW.

CS3510 Algorithms Georgia Tech on Youtube.

This course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZn0GhwjjD4

Also similar courses on the topic from Yale and MIT.

And, all the courses by Aswath Damodaran on YouTube.

edx CS50

edx.org,

ocw.mit.edu