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Not to discourage other redditors from putting a class together on this, but have you considered using Khan Academy? Sal's an excellent instructor and you're able to practice your newfound skills in various problem sets. There's even achievements!

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

A little gem I found about a year ago. All Sorts of good free stuff.

Also edx.org has some cool classes too. I'm currently following David Malan's Intro to Computer Science CS50 course that is taught at harvard, and I'm learning a lot!

Here is an extensive equation list I compiled myself from Anderson for my Aerospace course. This might come in useful for students if they are interested in taking this course.

Perhaps the only issue with publishing such a book would be that The Elements of Style goes for about ten bucks, contains rules for basically any grammar that college student is going to have trouble with, and is amazingly established.

I took the GRE a few months ago and I got a 166 on the Quantitative portion of it. I'd be happy to help or work with someone else to prepare material. What format were people thinking? I've done a little reading and it appears that the GRE and GMAT have fairly similar math sections so I would also recommend khanacademy's GMAT math section http://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/gmat?k. Since the math doesn't actually go past things learned in 10th grade, the test is more about problem solving than math skills.

I recently started using <em>Code Academy</em>. I'm thinking of becoming a computer science major and this helping my confidence with coding, I know nothing but I'm slowly getting there. It's also a good teaching program for anyone to use for themselves if they want to learn coding. They even have lesson for different platforms. I'm currently doing JavaScript.

i am putting together a class about comics but its not a drawing class.

what are you thinking of? how to draw like Marvel or DC?

if you guys are looking to learn how to draw spider-man and be the envy of your friends, you don't need to learn 'how to draw in comic style', you need to learn how to draw. here are some places to start.

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is far and away the best introductory drawing instruction book.
• The Loomis Books, Andrew Loomis wrote around six books on drawing. PM me and i'll send you them,
• for right away instruction check out Rad How To a blog that features basic drawing lessons. go all the way to the beginning to learn the basic forms the human body breaks down in to.

Check out free, online GMAT Prep at Khan Academy

>The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

>All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.

All right, the first video lesson is now up! Here's the link: https://vimeo.com/49357088

Also, you can enroll in this class until the third video lesson is up. This will make the grading and evaluating work less exhausting and/or frustrating. Thank you for your understanding, and I will see you all next week. :)

this. and Kahn.

p.s.: good luck! calc 2 was my first 'hard' math class. it may seem overwhelming at first but you've just gotta step up your game and actually study.. a lot.

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Slang arabic wasn't necessarily what I had in mind (although eventually, after achieving some level of fluency, having common modern idioms in my lexicon certainly would be helpful), but rather what is considered the Egyptian dialect/variety of Arabic, as opposed to, say, MSA, classical Arabic, Gulf Arabic, etc.

If we can't find formal training beyond our language tapes (or even if we can, really), we'd certainly benefit from chatting and practicing with someone else and working on our accents and pronunciation! It's very kind of you to offer! :)

Shouldn't you be practicing :)

Seriously though, if you're going to teach this, make sure you have the time to see it through.

My advice on how you, or anyone else, might teach this: -Everyone is going to be coming in with different levels of understanding. Some won't know how to read music, while others know chords and scales. You'll have to decide if you want to teach note-reading as well, which is tough. You might want to make the ability to read sheet music a pre-requisite.

-Probably the best way to actually run the class would http://www.anymeeting.com/ or a similar free web conference program. You can share your screen with everyone, and play things through your mic. It'd be a bonus if everyone had mics as well, then you could assess singing.

-You have to be creative in how you assess. For instance, if you wanted to see if everyone understood chord inversions, you could ask everyone to spell out a ii6 in B major and pm you their responses. You could do the same process for ear training - have them pm you what inversion chord they hear. Walk through the steps with them first - demonstrate singing the whole chord 1-3-5 style, then pick out the lowest note and sing it, then ask which note it was of the chord.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is probably the best free resources on the topic. It's used to teach beginning computer science at MIT, and while the text is a bit old, it's still very applicable to the basics you need to know for computer science.

It uses Scheme as the programming language, which is a cousin of LISP, which is in and of itself pretty damn powerful. Resources on how to get and install Scheme are on the book's site.

Read I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi. It is written for people in their early twenties and it is a very accessible read.

Edit: Title was a little off

Here's the reading list from the syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chSI9mPF0evlkmrUfFWBYlC6lKPRz4Lt8Fq0p5QMB4I/edit

Note that my professor's research concerns energy transmission and the "smart grid," so an inordinate amount of reading reflects her interests.

If anyone would like access to a particular article, I'll try and track it down and post it here.

I can't recommend Engineering and the Environment by Edward Rubin enough. A really great introduction to the science behind many environmental issues.

I don't mind at all. :) For us, it's not really about what we find most interesting (although we do find Egyptian Arabic very interesting), but rather about what would be most practical for our purposes.

Apart from that, though, it seems like would be a good choice for someone to do a class on, since it's often considered one of the most "useful" for people who really don't have a reason to pick any particular specific dialect but who just want to learn "to speak Arabic." For one thing, Egyptian Arabic is not only among the most commonly-spoken dialects, but is also arguably the most widely understood dialect in the Arabic-speaking world due to the fact that most modern Arabic movies, TV shows, music, etc are in this dialect (see, for example). Seems like it would be very UniReddit-friendly. :)

There ia this mooc starting https://iversity.org/en/courses/spanish-for-beginners i would say you should give it a try. It ends on the 16th but if you enrol in the free track before end, you will have access to all course material with the exception of a graded exam.

For what it's worth, Dan Boneh from Stanford runs an extremely good crypto course on Coursera, but it's REALLY REALLY INTENSE. I think there is a need for understandable and complete explanations of crypto (with minimal/high-school-level knowledge of maths, if possible)—as for myself, I'd definitely be interested.

Vous êtes prêt d'etre prof après une année d'apprende le francais? Bravo. J'apprenais le franćais depuis environ cinq ans (dans les années 90), et je n'ai pas le confidence d'instruire les autres. Mais j'étais un élève mauvais. (it probably took me twenty minutes to write this comment with the help of Google Translate. Anyway, I am interested in a french course. En tout cas, je voudrais prendre cette classe).

We can make a subreddit active.

This sounds fantastic to me.

You can do a webs.com site, too, for free. It only allows 10 pages on the free site, but there's a LOT you can do with it - videos, pictures, blog, chats, forums. Very cool stuff. Seeing as you're a software developer, though, you're probably better at making something out of wordpress than I could ever dream!

I used to use scriblink for internet RPGs, so I'm familiar with it. There was another site we used for a while, too, but I forget what it was.. once we found scriblink, we mostly used it.

> http://www.anymeeting.com/ Thanks so much for this link!

>you could ask everyone to spell out a ii6 in B major and pm you their responses. That's sort of like a homework substitute, I like that! Although I'm not going to be detailing any chord inversions so soon!

Check out "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" your public library should carry it, or buy a used old edition. I am the worst artist that ever lived, but after reading and doing the exercises in the book I can actually draw a decent portrait.

Benjamin Graham's <em>The Intelligent Investor</em> is a great book, setting out his ideas on investing in businesses. He was a mentor to Warren Buffet, who has a similar investment philosophy, and describes the book as "the best book on investing ever written"

I'm not too familiar with quality online resources, but the books that I used in my courses (and that I was pleased with) were Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach and Speech and Language Processing.

That's a pretty accurate assessment. I have a collaborative learning website, and the signup rate is much higher than number of people who participate. There's one class where 693 people signed up, but only 25 have done any work at all (3.6%). Other classes are a little better with 17% and 12% participation rates. Overall, I've found that the more difficult the class is, the lower the participation rate. That 3.6% rate is for Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which is a very difficult and time-consuming class.

You can check them out on http://curiousreef.com if you're interested.

All right. I apologize for my absence.

I'm starting to upload my old syllabi onto google docs. If you find any personal information listed on there, any identifying information PLEASE let me know so I can remove it and that is all I ask.

Here is the link Google Docs MBA Syllabi Collection

> Pluralsight

Thank you, @tedemang - our project is open for new contributors. If you think that we share a common vision, do join us - we are a decentralized team in look for ''ambassadors'' in every country, learning institution, community. Our public Trello board at https://trello.com/b/S9IVVD3V/open-source-university-public-roadmap shows our progress, while our Bitcoin Talk discussion at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2393582.0 is a place where we community like like-minded crypto enthusiasts who see the application of the blockchain for the purposes of democratizing and decentralizing Academia.

I thought Alex's lecture was phenomenal. He did a great job of really simplifying the necessity of gaining product/market fit early on to set the stage for the conversation on optimizing for growth. Here are a bunch of quotes that I took from the lecture: https://medium.com/@RajenSanghvi/24-quotes-from-alex-schultz-on-startup-growth-d3a846544937

Excellent! I'm pretty familiar with a lot of the CS related complexity/chaos concepts so I think I'll probably look at the Kahn Academy Lectures on Diff Eq to get me in the mindset for these newer concepts. I appreciate the advice!

1st Lesson & tutorial are up. Let me know what its like and if you follow it.

1st lecture

1st Tutorial Sheet

It appears that skype will support chats with up to 50 people.

For voice, there are a few free conferencing tools available

http://www.freeconferencecall.com/

http://mashable.com/2011/04/17/4-conference-call-services/

May I recommend SkillShare ?

I haven't actually tried it but it seems like a good place to start. I'm sure there are better alternatives out there though. Please post on reddit if you decide to do it!

Thank you very much in advance, mate.

1. First question: What are the most important features of python, and what type of projects would you choose to use it with, instead of choosing any of the other programming languages?

2. Second question: What software would you recommend to start learning with?

3. Third question: How does Django fit in? it's not a CMS, is it?

Usually a good choice depending ont he business you go with. I'm going to give you the slides for the lectures now, but you'll have to wait for the audio... i don't know what's up with the guy who recorded them.

lecture 1

lecture 2

A Random Walk Down Wall Street was the most influential in terms of why active trading isn't the way to go. I also enjoyed Shiller's Finance and the Good Society on why we shouldn't hate the finance sector or think it's all gloom from here. There isn't really a portfolio management book that's done it for me because using Modern Portfolio Theory and ETFs is really a dynamic thing where you wouldn't want to use numbers in the past when bonds/stocks were valued very differently - that's all been online for me.

one of the cornerstones for contemporary creative writing is "omit needless words", as dictated by Strunk & White. Also, check "On Writing" by Stephen King. That little book really opened my eyes to form.

Familiarizing yourself with terminology, sketching and getting used to letter forms, how to experiment and stretch form, placing elements on a grid (and what that means rhetorically) and creating larger compositions. If you want to see what some of this mean, we'll be using Ellen Lupton's Thinking with Type. You can peruse topics there. Let me know if you have any more questions.

lol I'm reading a book called "Clean Code", and today I read about how that exact situation is something you shouldn't do... they discourage doing two unrelated tasks in an if statement, like testing results and manipulating data, because apparently it makes code unnecessarily more difficult to read and understand. I've only been programming for a few months, so I have no idea what I'm talking about . . . just quoting a book :)

But what do you make of that? When should I justify using an out argument?

Pick up HTML5 and CSS3 by Brain P. Hogan (ebook even)- it's a wicked resource and the examples he gives outline all the changes, resources, cross-compatibility issues, etc. It's by 'The Pragmatic Programmers', so you know it's gonna be good.

Best book I can recommend for learning basketball strategy from an analytic perspective is Dean Oliver's <em>Basketball on Paper.</em>

As a sidenote until the course gets filled, I figure I'll buy a used copy of the textbook for another school's class and read through that: UNC's Textbook