Ruby Koans – Another Great Tutorial
Ruby Koans is somewhat advanced than the other tutorials I went through earlier. It has 30 topics and you have to fill-in the missing piece of code to complete each topic. Level: Advanced Duration: 12 hours
Completed ‘Human Computer Interaction’ from Coursera
Completed ‘Human-Computer Interaction’ course offered by Scott Klemmer, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University. This course was offered through Coursera.org The course started on 28th May and the duration was 5 weeks. It explored the design techniques and processes that help you build interfaces and technologies that bring people joy rather than frustration. Some of the…
Completed ‘Machine Learning’ from Coursera
Completed ‘Machine Learning’ course offered by Andrew Ng, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University. This course was offered through Coursera.org The course started on 23rd April and the duration was 10 weeks. It was an exhilarating opportunity to learn about this cutting edge field. The distinctive feature of the course was weekly programming assignments in Octave which were…
Git (Source Version Control) Tutorial from CodeSchool
Recently I started using Git and Github for one of my hobby projects. To get up to speed I went through a few tutorials. I particularly liked the one at try.github.com. It is an all-in-browser interactive tutorial. You just launch the tutorial link and you get command prompt, file system and connection to github all simulated…
Ruby on Rails – Excellent Tutorial from CodeSchool
‘Ruby on Rails’ is a web development framework for Ruby language… just came across an excellent tutorial for ‘Ruby on Rails’. Link: http://railsforzombies.org Level: Intermediate Duration: 2 hours (i didn’t watch the screencasts, directly went to the interactive challenges and slides. It will take much longer if you watch screencasts)
Some Good Ruby Tutorials
I have done most of my web development work in ASP.Net or Java. I have been thinking about learning one of other web development languages, particularly the new ones which are famous for their expressiveness. Finally I have started with Ruby. I found some very good interactive tutorials: TryRuby.org Level: Beginner Duration: 30 minutes RubyMonk.com…
Completed ‘Compilers’ from Coursera
Completed ‘Compilers’ course offered by Alex Aiken, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University. This course was offered through Coursera.org The course started on 23rd April and the duration was 10 weeks. It was a good opportunity to refresh a lot of concepts and learn new ones. The quality of the content (lectures, exercises & assignments) was superb.
Completed ‘Introduction to Logic’ from Coursera
Completed ‘Introduction to Logic’ course offered by Michael Genesereth, Associate Professor, Stanford University. This course was offered through Coursera.org The course started on 23rd April and the duration was 7 weeks. It was very well structured and the online proof editor were a treat to work with. The course also helped to the understand some of…
Completed ‘CS101 (Introduction to Computing Principles)’ from Coursera
Completed the ‘CS101 (Introduction to Computing Principles)’ course offered by Nick Parlante, Lecturer in Computer Science, Stanford University. The course was offered online through Coursera.org The course started on 23rd April 2012 and went on for 6 weeks. It was a introductory course and meant for people from non-IT background. Despite having two degrees in Computers, I still went…
Free online courses from Top Universities
A revolution is underway in higher education. Top universities are offering their courses online for free through initiatives like: Coursera – Launched by two Standard University professors: Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng Udacity – Co-founded by Google Executive and Standard professor Sebastian Thrun edX – Joint venture by MIT and Harvard We already have a lot of…