CodeSchool is a great site for introductory programming courses. With all guides and practice exercises available right within the browser, it is a hassle-free way to start learning. The design of the site is also very pleasing which enhances the overall experience. Recently, CodeSchool offered a free weekend pass to all their content. I took the…
Ariba is a cloud-based Procurement and Supply Chain Management solutions from SAP. This 3-week course ran from 10th November 2015 to 9th December 2015 and covered the following topics: Week 1: The Digital Economy and Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Supplier Information Management Week 2: Ariba Sourcing Professional, Ariba Contract Management, and Ariba Procure-to-Pay Week 3: Ariba…
Took 5 day course on building applications on Oracle Fusion Middleware using ADF (Application Development Framework). Oracle ADF, built on top of Java EE, is meant for developing Enterprise Applications, in particular customizing and enhancing Oracle ERP solutions.
‘Pixar is a box’ is an excellent tutorial at Khan Academy developed in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios. It is about some of the Math concepts that we learn in school and how they apply to making animated movies. The content is meant for secondary school students (and above ). Tutorial sketches a broad outline…
Completed ‘Søren Kierkegaard – Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity‘ course taught by Associate Professor Jon Stewart from University of Copenhagen. The course is offered through Coursera platform and ran for 8 weeks from 6st October 2014 through 1st December 2014. Course consisted of weekly reading assignments from the works of Kierkegaard, followed by video lectures where Professor Jon provided…
Took Microsoft Exam 70-486 which part of MCSD certification. I spend about 2 weeks studying the material and took some notes which are posted here. Notes are not complete in the sense that they don’t cover the full syllabus – half of my notes are scattered in different places which will be incorporated here later…
Completed ‘A Brief History of Humankind’ course taught by Mr. Yuval Noah Harari from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The course is offered through Coursera platform. It is a big history course, giving bird eye view of evolution of humankind from hunter-gathers to present day knowledge workers. The course analyzes long periods of time and is…
Took ‘Introduction to Physics’ course at Udacity. It is a beginner level course and I have skimmed through most of it. But what kept me going till the end is the extremely engaging way in which it is taught. Every lesson, you take one important Physics problem and try to solve it. You make progress…
I have been taking Massively Open Online Courses at Coursera, but this is the first one at Udacity. The two platforms take different approaches… Coursera is more like a virtual classroom while Udacity feels like a very well designed interactive tutorial. Udacity is self-paced with very short video clips interspersed with questions and quick programming…
Completed ‘Software Engineering for SaaS’ course offered by Dave Patterson and Armando Fox, Professors at University of California, Berkeley. This course was offered through Coursera.org The course started on 13th July and the duration was 5 weeks. Course taught the best practices for developing software as a service. It included weekly coding assignments where a SaaS application…