[clue] Budding SW Engineers

mike havlicek mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com
Fri May 11 21:53:02 MDT 2012


Thanks for posting this. I am enjoying the Fourier lectures.
 
-Mike
 

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 From: jacob <jborer at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [clue] Budding SW Engineers
  

Check out:http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/ 

The new hotness is:
https://www.coursera.org/

--jacob


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:05 PM, edv <ezedtheamerican at gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the reply to my solicitation.
>I might google "free high quality learning resources" + "mit" +
>"standford", but you may already know the websites or online information
>about such initiatives if you do not then oh well...
>And yes I have contacted attorneys, dentists, masons, landscapers,
>prostitutes and just about every other type of professional with a cold
>call similar to "hey can you help?"
>but seriously I would like a link to these resources you speak of if one
>is available.
>
>On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 14:12 -0600, jacob wrote:
>> First, there are lots of places that are willing to teach you in exchange
>> for a fee. These are schools.
>>
>> Second, there are a plethora of free high quality learning resources out
>> there. MIT and Stanford both have initiatives for putting courses online.
>> The awesome Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is available
>> online for free. I hear that the Khan Academy has some great learning
>> resources available.
>>
>> Third, there are many programming language/methodology user groups that
>> would be a better place to get this type of help or at least find resources.
>>
>> Finally in response to to Ed, getting mad because a programmer/software
>> engineer doesn't step up to teach you in exchange for beer money is
>> childish. Would you ask a lawyer, mason, teacher, or other professional to
>> volunteer to teach you and get mad if they didn't jump at the chance?
>>
>> Just my 2 cents.
>>
>> -jacob
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