What is the best online course you took recently?
would love to hear your recommendations. What is the best online course you took recently?
I really liked this course in radioastronomy: "EPFLx: The Radio Sky I: Science and Observations".
It's really well put together for an introductory course and gives a solid understanding, how radio telescopes work, principles, etc.
However, I'm not sure: was the course so wonderful or was it my deep interest in the field contributing to all the enjoyment? :-)
Hope it helps!
If you are at all interested in getting into game development in Unity (so C#) then this is a great course - and free.
Make a full game over a 10 hour youtube video (obviously not in one sitting!).
I've been doing it and am at 5 hours 31 minutes and I think it's absolutely brilliant. I've been a developer for about 10 years and am confident with C# but had never used Unity or made a game outside of little prototypes in eg javascript that would just work in the browser.
Smart Biology has absolutely stunning animations for visualization of biological concepts. The course builds an entire cell from the ground up.
https://www.smart-biology.com/
I took a Native American studies class from my local community college. Was really, really interesting how we basically have a ton of (what I'd consider) small shadow states everywhere, each with their own rich culture and history, but with only limited sovereignty and very little visibility today. It was kinda like learning that we actually have 100 states, not 50. Like states, many tribes have their own laws and governments and economies, and run the gamut from extreme poverty to filthy rich, from no land to huge reservations (but which they rarely own outright).
It was mostly a story about US betrayals and broken treaties and genocide and forced migrations over the centuries, combined with enduring resilience that eventually turned into dual citizenship and also some of the highest rates of US Armed Forces participation. It's a part of US history that was never really discussed much in school for me, and I wish it were.
Lots of stuff from MasterClass. It's difficult to explain it to the HN crowd, but if something interests you, it's probably worth it. Most of it goes really deep and into other parts of life as well.
I recently took Wharton's Online Behavioral Economics course by Prof. Kessler. It was my first exposure to this topic, and I really enjoyed his teaching style. The content is supported by references to recent published papers and real-world use cases, which helped bridge the gap between theory and practice. The program is not cheap, it costs around $2600, but I found it to be worth the value.
High performance SQLite by Aaron Francis is very good, I’m almost 60% through it. I’ve never learned the ins and outs of a database so deeply before.
I did those 100 exercises to learn rust.