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Venti Quattro
01-09-2013, 10:56 PM
Any of you scros enrolled in courses in coursera? I enrolled in courses in Game Theory, Micro/Macroeconomics, Finance, and Sports.

I even enrolled in a trivial Algebra class just to refresh my mind. It's cool.

NASpurs
01-09-2013, 11:00 PM
Pretty cool, I've been looking for websites like these to brush up my economics as well as my financing funny enough like you. Have you tried Khanacademy.org as well?

Venti Quattro
01-09-2013, 11:03 PM
I've heard about it but I haven't signed up yet. Well maybe I won't be able to since I already have enough in coursera and almost all my courses (except Sports and Society) begin in consecutive weeks.

The Reckoning
01-09-2013, 11:05 PM
no language courses? weak.

NASpurs
01-09-2013, 11:08 PM
no language courses? weak.

Don't know what languages in particular you're looking for but duolingo.com has Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian for free. :tu

NASpurs
01-09-2013, 11:09 PM
I've heard about it but I haven't signed up yet. Well maybe I won't be able to since I already have enough in coursera and almost all my courses (except Sports and Society) begin in consecutive weeks.

Well it's just some dude teaching you through youtube videos so it's not actual courses. :lol But it's pretty cool nonetheless and you really don't have to sign up.

The Reckoning
01-09-2013, 11:18 PM
Don't know what languages in particular you're looking for but duolingo.com has Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian for free. :tu

you da man. brilliant.

FkLA
01-10-2013, 05:38 AM
Sal from khanacademy is great tbh. Nigga helped me master the calculuses, linear algebra, differential equations, etc...laying the foundation for the engineering machine I am today.

baseline bum
01-10-2013, 05:47 AM
The Astronomy and the Galaxies and Cosmology courses are pretty cool there. Never had time to take either in school. There's an econ class from Caltech there that looks pretty interesting too, since it actually uses calc instead of the traditional algebra-based intros (still, no multivariable though, which makes 2D optimization problems way easier and nD for n > 2 doable).

baseline bum
01-10-2013, 05:48 AM
Still, LOL when coursera tells you to put their classes on a resume.

baseline bum
01-10-2013, 06:12 AM
edx looks cool too, though I haven't followed any of their courses yet, since most are CS so far and I've already taken them in real college.

Some good schools at both though:

edx has MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Texas, and Georgetown
coursera has Caltech, Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Duke, Rice