What are Reddit's favorite Code Learning Apps?

FYI it’s actually over 400 free classes through all ivy leagues

Edit: I’m doing one right now through Dartmouth

Edit 2: link to all 450 classes

It's obviously ((i*i*i)+(11*i)-6)/6 for the first number in the line i and then just + 2 for all further numbers in the same line.

You have still a lot to learn to become a good programmer. I am a good programmer because I found the solution using google ;-D https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/2320099/write-a-program-in-c-to-print-the-pattern

Why does /u/dota2_ss talk about machine learning lol?

>Damn it feels good to win, sure, but if you are curious http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html[1] & https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning[2] . p.s.

Are the bots exchanging information on how to get smarter?

Hey, so I was literally you about a year ago! I started teaching high school right out of college, didn't like it but stuck it out for a few years, then finally left and got a software dev job.

I did some coding in college (only a bit, mostly with Matlab and python). I kept coming back to coding over the years after college because I really enjoyed it. I picked up some Java and Python. When I decided to seriously switch careers, I started teaching myself web dev and C#. For web development, I used The Odin Project. I literally breezed through every technical interview based on what I learned there. For C#, I used this awesome tutorial series, then did lots of personal projects.

I studied for about a year before I started getting job offers. I got about 4 offers out of maybe 200 applications, and accepted a remote position as a full stack dev with a data company. I've been loving it so far, and I'm incredibly glad I made the switch.

If you have any specific questions, let me know and I'd be glad to share more.

Bootcamps require a lot of condensed time, dedication and hard work. this doesn't end up working for everyone.

I'd argue that anyone that can or did succeed at a bootcamp could have done just as well teaching themselves with free material in the exact same timeframe. Anyone who wouldn't succeed will save themselves a $10k lesson.

something like https://www.freecodecamp.org/ is free, it gives a nice, mostly linear path to web development (plus other content) and makes people solve problems that train you for the real world. There are many other options available at the same price point.

Anyone thinking of learning to program should at the very least start by going through content like this before dropping thousands of dollars. Any experienced programmer can tell you we are also professional researchers, we often need to find documentation or solutions to problems on the internet and we do that via the massive amount of free content available on the internet.

A lot of people are recommending codeacademy and the sorts, but there are free, better resources for you to learn how to become a full stack developer. And another one. Of course there's coursera and udemy things too but I find them always to be missing key stuff when it comes to becoming a fullstack dev.

Check out freeCodeCamp or The Odin Project and see if it's a viable path for you and you're interested on the subject covered on these courses. They're free.

Damn it feels good to win, sure, but if you are curious http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html & https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning. p.s.

I'm about to get real jazzy on you.

Learn modal interchange (borrowed chords). It's where you can use any chords from any parallel scale source. So if you're in C major, you can add in any chords from C minor, C Dorian, C Mixolydian, etc. ("I Remember" does this a lot)

Also there's a big difference between using basic triads and using 7th chords with lots of tensions. (Example: the difference between a C major triad and a C major 13 (#11) chord or a C7(b9 #9 b13) or the difference between a C minor triad and a C minor 6/9 chord).

Here are some other things to consider: Secondary dominants. Tritone substitutions. Line Cliches. Parallel harmony (Constant structure). Modal harmony. Reharmonization. Chromatic harmony.

Learn chord-scale theory and know which scales/modes can be played on what chords. Learning all of the melodic minor modes is helpful for this.

But most of all, don't get to hung up on chords. I think melody and rhythm is more important, but chords and harmony can help bring a melody to it's full potential. I spent a lot of time learning about chords and totally neglected melody and rhythm.

EDIT: Just wanted to say that you can take simple common chord progressions and spice them up/make them your own by adding other chords in between them or substituting out chords. Take a I - IV - V for example and try adding more chords in between. And here's a free 6 week music theory class that just started: https://www.coursera.org/course/musictheory

I am currently learning Python (started about 2 months ago) while working a more than full-time job, though I am not new to programming. I use SoloLearn on my phone to practice and study when I have a few odd minutes throughout the day. I took the Automate the Boring Stuff class on Udemy for $10 and doing Colt Steele's course on there currently at night after work. I play around with the challenges on edabit.com and a few other places to reinforce what I have been learning, especially list comprehension.

CGI stands for both "Common Gateway Interface" and "Computer Generated Imagery". In the early days of web development, you might have some perl script a cgi-bin directory to do server-side scripting. http://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/perl_cgi.htm

Simply right click and in the context menu you will see an option to Block element. Here's a random tutorial on it I found if you want to dig deeper, https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-block-content-from-web-pages-using-ublock-origin/amp/

I'm a fulltime dev and can work 100% remote if I want. My first suggestion is to look at job opportunities that interest you and make a list of the required skillsets. Find what is common and learn those. A good language for getting the basics down is python. Web development tends to be HTML, CSS & javascript. You may also want to look into languagues such as C# & Java. The key is to get the basics down and to start building your own applications. Find tutorials, read blogs, etc. Post it all on github and use your portfolio as proof that you can do the work. One place to start your journey is here: https://www.freecodecamp.org/

OP I don't think you realize just how many really, really good jobs are out there that wouldn't require you to know how to drive. The one that comes to the top of my head is web design. Which I am some knowledge on.

Here's a free learning site for you to get started if you so please. It says "300 hours", but as someone who has learned from this place with no prior experience with coding, I can guarantee that you could the first certificate (HTML) within a week. The second I'm not so sure about, but through looking at forums and such online I've gotten estimates between 70-140 hours (still a lot better compared to, yknow, 300).

Remember that one certificate alone won't be enough, you'll also need to build some stuff yourself to prove you actually know how to do it.

If you (or anyone reading this) has any questions on this I try to help, but please keep in mind I am also somewhat new to coding. :)

Yeah, Learn C, This kind of complexity doesn't come in a high level language like ruby. High level is about abstraction, You want control in this regard. Also, I'm sure there was some assembly used in Xenia, But most of it was likely in C/C++. You can learn from a variety of sources, As always, Google anything you don't know, Anything you see and don't recognize. Ignorance isn't shameful if you correct it, Don't be afraid to learn out of fear of judgment for not knowing in the first place, We aren't born with much of any knowledge, We all have to learn or figure it out.

Wikipedia can help, Check out the Wikipedia page for C. Also there is http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c/lesson1.html

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/

There are many more, You can just google it. You'll soon learn how programming languages, And specifically C works. You can always google function names and operators and such if you forget, It isn't a big deal, We all do it, we don't permanently memorize everything necessarily.

Also, Writing test programs to learn about functions and how the language works and such is fine, But it will likely not capture your attention and such like actually working on something you want. It doesn't matter what it is, Just make something. Make some cool ASCII rogue like or whatever you want, It isn't hard.

Remove "hard" from your vocabulary and just do stuff. Some stuff is more complicated and may take longer, But you can do anything. I very much believe that difficulty mostly comes from emotional barriers and such. I'm learning classical Latin on my own and afterwards I'll learn Ancient Greek because I've removed such barriers and cultural norms of it being "hard". You are just a human doing things, Learning, Programming, Etc, There is nothing else to it. If you're really serious about this, PM me and I'll even help you.

I will call complete bullshit on this one. I took a class on Coursera called <strong>Learning how to learn</strong> (which I highly recommend btw), and they rip this opinion to shreds. You have two types of tasks. One where you use your focus mode, and one where you use diffuse mode. Focus mode is intensive and intended. Diffuse mode is what you do with intuition.

So if you are doing something where a lot of focus is required, especially learning a new task, adding ANY other kind of stimulus is the worst thing you can do. If you are doing something that you've been doing for years, and don't require that much focused attention, music will probably do you no harm.

The best thing that you can do for a focus intensive task is to really try hard for short bursts of time (30 min), followed by an activity you find relaxing. It is called the pomodoro technique.

I'm in the same boat as you, I had a very bad algo professor and I feel like I really missed out on some important topics. Luckily for us both of courseras algorithm courses are starting/have started. https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI is Princetons course, which has a focus on implementation as opposed to theory (everything is done in Java). https://www.coursera.org/course/algo is Stanfords course which is more about analysis. I plan on doing both, I've finished the first week of Princetons course I have to say I really enjoy it so far.

This probably comes off as rude, and will get downvoted but; No thanks, I know you most likely aren't going to just rip my name out and use it as your own design, but I also don't want mine to become a template.

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It is just a class that creates objects.

Imagine you wanted to build your own car. It's pretty complex, requires a lot of parts and the knowledge of how a car works. But what if you could go to a car factory and just get a car that is built and ready to use...

This is the basic idea of the factory. It will generally provide some utility methods for getting an instance of a class, and is often used to hide some of the complications around creating those classes. Rather than complex instantiations dotted around your code base, you have a simple call to a factory method.

*Edit: A very simple example: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/design_pattern/factory_pattern.htm

Hey, I would like to strongly recommend a course I found really useful in organizing how I approach learning.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

This was a lovely course that provided a lot of practical tools and wasn't condescending. It's not rocket science, and you've probably seen bits and pieces here and there but I think they make a compelling case on how to approach studying.

Other idea would be an edX course on "Justice". It seems like a nice light survey of intellectual schools and should be fun to think about given that you have leisure.

I think what you're meaning to say is that you understand HTML and CSS, but I don't think that you're quite comfortable writing it yet. As with most of these languages, you'll get a lot more comfortable writing them and understanding when to use the appropriate tag/function/etc. the more you use it and the more you see it. Start by looking at the source of websites you like the look of or that use a fun technique that you're interested in learning. Try to visualize exactly what each tag is doing in regards to what it looks like on the site (you can even try disabling the CSS to get a better look at how the raw html is output). From there, you can find website mockups on sites like dribbble and behanced. Take a mockup image and try to code that site using HTML and CSS. It's ok to keep http://w3schools.com or something similar open while you're doing this to reference tags and look things up. You'll find you don't need it as often the more you use the language. Browsing through http://codepen.io and taking your time to read through the code is also a good way to see small snippets of code that people are making interesting things with. As with anything, practice will make you better!

Its in the comment section of that list. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coding-interviews-for-dummies-5e048933b82b/

Here're a few common paths: 1. Many people are applying ML to projects by themselves at home, or in their companies. This helps both with your learning, as well as helps build up a portfolio of ML projects in your resume (if that is your goal). If you're not sure what projects to work on, Kaggle competitions can be a great way to start. Though if you have your own ideas I'd encourage you to pursue those as well. If you're looking for ideas, check out also the machine learning projects my Stanford class did last year: http://cs229.stanford.edu/projects2014.html I'm always blown away by the creativity and diversity of the students' ideas. I hope this also helps inspire ideas in others! 2. If you're interested in a career in data science, many people go on from the machine learning MOOC to take the Data Science specialization. Many students are successfully using this combination to start off data science careers. https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1

You might need to do a bit of brute forcing for the covered bits but it's definitely possible.

These guys were able to recover a QR code that was almost completely covered up.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lets-enhance-how-we-found-rogerkver-s-1000-wallet-obfuscated-private-key-8514e74a5433/

I took a pretty interesting short MOOC from Coursera called Learning How To Learn. I highly recommend it.

It's very easy to follow, and it goes into a lot of good practices for learning, but also a lot of easy to follow science behind it, that really enlightens and encourages you to learn.

It goes into breaking down learning something, how much to study, how to study, when to study, etc. It goes into what your brain does when you sleep to "save" the things you're learning (neural connections, like the guy in this video said)

I would definitely recommend taking this free short course. It sounds like something you're interested in, and it really helped me.

The Coursera has a great course on this subject; learn how to learn
> This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. We’ll learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates (“chunks”) information. We’ll also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.

Have you left it too late? NO! Is the answer, that comes with a caveat though:

Firstly, 'bootcamps' are money pits that you really don't need to go down, spending 3k or whatever to learn he same stuff that you can find for £10 on Udemy is atrocious. You also wouldn't need to take time off work, just study in your own time.

Secondly, you are very unlikely to be job-ready in 3 months, whether that is self-study or bootcamps', it can happen, however, there are tonnes of people who try and fail.

https://www.thinkful.com/blog/why-learning-to-code-is-so-damn-hard/

Read the above to see if you really want to go down the rabbit hole.

Also read -

https://www.theodinproject.com/courses/web-development-101/lessons/gearing-up

In fact, if web-dev is the path you want to take then the Odin project in general is an amazing resource.

Like I started off with, I'd consider trying to self-study and seeing if codeing is for you before you spend a lot of money or take an un-paid career break to pursue it. It is one of those things that yes it can be a very lucrative career, but if you aren't naturally good at it and/or enjoy it then you won't get very far.

Quincy Larson on the FreeCodeCamp blog wrote this post with 300 stories of developers who got their first jobs in their 30s and beyond.

At the beginning of the post he links to several dozen Quora posts: "Is x too old to start learning to code"? There's one link for every age between 14 and 60.

For everyone wondering why w3schools is bad, check this shit out.

Scroll down to the "Insert Data From a Form Into a Database" section, look at that PHP example code. Yes, that's a SQL injection vulnerability right there, and this is what they're teaching everyone to be acceptable. There's no escaping there, no prepared statements, not even any MENTION of anything being wrong with this...

If you want to build a website, you need to know HTML and CSS first. They aren’t programming languages, but they are the bones of a website. Then move on to JavaScript as your first language. Try The Odin Project

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My favorite online developer community is actually Twitter. There's tons of developers online, and by following only other programmers, it turns your twitter feed into a second Hacker News.

Some programmers I follow: @dhh ‏@getify @BrendanEich ‏@jensimmons ‏ @sophiebits @dan_abramov @jeresig ‏ ‏‏@danluu @willsentance @lenadroid ‏‏@mjackson @ladyleet ‏ ‏ @housecor @left_pad ‏@peggyrayzis ‏@aprilwensel ‏ @ken_wheeler ‏@noopkat ‏@captainsafia ‏@linclark ‏@holtbt ‏@spolsky ‏@saronyitbarek ‏@SachaGreif ‏@iam_preethi ‏@anildash ‏@sarah_edo ‏@codinghorror ‏@bendhalpern ‏@kentcdodds ‏@wycats ‏@wesbos ‏@cmaxw ‏@shanselman ‏@rachelnabors ‏@jennschiffer ‏@rachelandrew ‏@ossia ‏

Were you given a syllabus or curriculum? Are you teaching for the AP CS test? What do you want the kids to get out of this class?

Personally, I think a CS class would do really well to have logic puzzles, brain teasers, and critical thinking, especially early on when no one knows how to program. It's a good way to start thinking logically and algorithmically.

But it'd be a silly intro to CS course if the students never learned programming (after all, prog languages are how we convey our ideas and incidentally happen to also run on computers :P). You'll want an easy high-level languages that the students can jump right into. I recommend Python - it's very easy to understand and there are lots of terrific resources for it.

I found this coursera course to be one of the best MOOCs I've been a seen. It's introductory programming in Python. In fact, If I were you (and if its offered again in the Fall), I'd consider having the students enroll in this. The video lectures are great, it has quizzes to test understanding, and the assignments / mini-projects are amazing. Plus, their codeskulptor site is a great thing - you can get a Python program up and running in no time (no installation hassle required)!

The mini projects build interactive games (such as pong and asteroids) with appropriate starter code. It uses its own simplified GUI library designed for first year CS students that are new to programming. The fun interactive games are a great way to keep studets engaged (rather than writing a program to compute a Knight's Tour or whether a number is prime, etc).

https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython1

I, myself, learned Python from Google's Python class taught by Nick Parlante. Very good lecturer, and goofy too (the good thing). The assignments were fun little exercises for me.

https://developers.google.com/edu/python/

Good luck! This sounds very exciting! I hope you and your students have a great time :)

you can! like @cbs5090 said, and not to sound cliche, but JUST DO IT! We have a world of information and knowledge at our fingertips now. I didn't finish college, or study any of what I currently do at school. It was all forums, reading, videos, practice, failing, getting up and trying again. and I wasn't born with a silver spoon either, my parents are immigrants from Cuba, we lived in a 1 room fucking shack in Hialeah, FL my whole childhood pretty much! My point is, you can do it! Just start now!

this is perfect place to start if your interested in online work like Google Adwords, but like this there are tons of resources for other areas of interest: https://support.google.com/partners/topic/3204437?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=3111012&amp;vid=1-635778572495978135-373249546

another area that is blowing up right now is Big Data i.e. Hadoop, Mapreduce, Hive, Pig, PowerBI, etc. also all free to learn and huge shortage of quality people

https://www.coursera.org/course/bigdata

all of this you can do from home, or remote, or in office if that's your thing. and you could be up and running within a year!

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" - Aristotle

Cognitive decoupling is a prerequisite to algorithmic intelligence.

Have you seen this? https://www.coursera.org/course/mythology

Check out https://www.coursera.org/ Its an "education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free" They literally have thousands of college courses covering all topics/interests. A few upcoming farm/agricultural/homesteading type courses included Chicken Welfare and Behavior, Sustainable Agricultural Land Management, Livestock Health Management, and Introduction to Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage. The first time I discovered the website I spent almost 3 hours browsing through courses. Ive been hooked ever since!

There is too much in coding for any one person to learn and its easy to get lost on which direction to pursue, especially when self taught!

For what its worth, I think FreeCodeCamp does a much better job of teaching you web programming than CodeAcademy.

I agree it was confusing as I first started & still is confusing when explaining how FVTT can be extended to new- and non-users. And it’s a little thing but an annoying one.

I believe it comes from the name of extensions to JavaScript/node.js and what they are called in that dev lingo - hence predating FVTT use of the term.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/modular-programming-nodejs-npm-modules/

My daughter and I just took their "Beginning Programming" course using Python. It was PHENOMENAL.

I wholeheartedly recommend it.

The profs were great, the exercises built on the lectures and actually taught us more than the lectures. They weren't just rehashing the classes, they made you think and move farther.

EDIT: This one: https://www.coursera.org/course/programming1

Five years ago, in 2010, 3G internet speeds were able to deal with most websites quite adequately. However, the average web page doubled in size from 2010 to 2012. By 2013, the average page size was up a further 30%.

The capacity of 3G isn't increasing but the average page size of the top websites is growing exponentially.

FCC is totally awesome! It brushes you up from a complete beginner and prepares you up to a job interview, and that too for FREE! But with too many contents, it might be overwhelming for someone who wants a crash course on JS. The Odin Project is also a great starter which covers all the basics of JS and even some popular Front-End libraries like React, Angular and Vue.

There are several ways to make a desktop app. Spotify and Discord are both PWAs (Progressive Web Apps). Progressive Web Apps are built in much the same way as a modern website is built. The two things that you need to put into a website to create a PWA are called workers and a manifest file. That allows the app to be downloadable and accessible offline. FreeCodeCamp has a good tutorial on it.

If you're making an application strictly for Windows, you could build a .NET Framework WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) application. There are some other options as well if you're going with .NET. Just search Google for .NET Desktop Application.

There are a lot of options out there, and you'll see a lot of back and forth on the internet about which option is best, but I say do your research, pick an option and stick with it.

Maybe think about it differently. You didn't waste 80k because you learned how to study, how college works, what a workplace is like, and I would imagine a whole lot of useful technical skills.

There's nothing to stop you using free sites like https://www.freecodecamp.org/ and YouTube and Coursera to learn how to program. If you really like it you can go back and study it, but with those skills plus your audio skills there are also sorts of audio related developer jobs you could get. Even now, you could cast the audio net wider into podcasting and freelancing/contracting. Even just making some skillshare/udemy/other online courses teaching a type of person (eg. wannabe podcasters or academics who now have to make videos and teach online) how to set up a mic, set levels, record and edit audio.

Try Nand2Tetris. You start with just the NAND gate and build logic and arithmetic with that. Then you build a complete computer ~~with blackjack and hookers~~ and design an assembler and high-level language (including the corresponding compiler) for it. You also write a VM and an OS. In the end, you finish the course by writing Tetris for your own computer.

The materials are free, open source and always available. You can also take the free course on Coursera, starting April 11.

It may not have anything to do with that. She may simply get overwhelmed with the prospect of all that needs to get done and then defeats herself by not getting any of it done which ultimately creates a subconscious loop of 'all i have to do.' which drains motivation.

That may have angered her dad.

This free class on the nueroscience of learning to learn talks about this at some point. Maybe it will help.

Y’all need to get a hobby, girlfriend, something.

Hating on a man you never met can’t be healthy.

Try https://www.freecodecamp.org/ it really helped me develop skills for my career and utilize time when I was bored

For those actually interested in developing and testing gaming bots https://www.coursera.org/course/ggp starts at the end of the month.

PS: the intelligence of the bots is rarely evaluated based on the size of the logs...

Fun fact, CSS's color property doesn't just specify text color, but is rather a declaration of the foreground color, which includes things like border, bullet, and alt text color.

See item #1 here: http://www.sitepoint.com/12-little-known-css-facts/

Hi all, this is Professor Martinez-Davila from the University of Colorado! The question you pose on online courses is a really interesting one because some academic scholars like myself think that engaging "citizen scholars" in online courses is a huge opportunity for advancing discoveries. On June 15th, my "Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Spain" free, online course (a MOOC) is opening at https://www.coursera.org/course/medievalspain .

I think we are at a really interesting point in historical studies because scholars like myself are not only interested in sharing their passion for history (in my case, medieval Spanish Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim coexistence) but also want to harness the power of crowdsourcing to rebuild medieval worlds -- even digital 3d worlds!

And, I've often found that professionals in the work world do some pretty amazing historical research themselves! Equal to or better than traditional university scholars. One of my Spanish friends, a computer scientist by training, is one of the best paleographers (a reader of old handwriting scripts) I know.

Thanks for sharing this post, Roger :-)

Java != Javascript

Se exige conhecimento de Java e vc tá estudando Javascript, não faz muito sentido, são duas linguagens bem diferentes que só possuem nomes similares.

Pelo visto o seu projeto envolve um site, então Javascript é a melhor opção junto com HTML e CSS no começo, Python também é ótimo para backend, mas como vc procura fazer uma PoC, foca em Javascript que dá pra fazer tudo.

FreeCodeCamp é uma opção mt boa, mas ele presume que vc já tem uns básicos em computação, que você pode cobrir com CS50 e entender um pouco antes mesmo de chegar em escrever códigos, é importante entender o que é uma API, como funciona, como aplica, funcionamento de web e tudo mais.

Outra opção é o The Odin Project , que tem um pequeno overlap com FreeCodeCamp, mas acho que é mais completo pra WebDev.

Sim, é difícil, mas muito longe de ser impossível e é possivelmente uma das coisas que mais possui recursos gratuitos para aprender.

E como eu sempre digo para os novato que trombo, nunca tenha vergonha de aprender, de perguntar e principalmente de não saber, afinal é por isso que vc está aprendendo.

I always recommend following The Odin Project's curriculum. It's free and open source, well maintained and updated, comprehensive, and it gives you a very clear path to follow.

Apart from that the community is very active and supportive.

I think you're forgetting history here. I haven't revised anything.

He's remembered as peak Ronaldo in 02 because of this world cup, before it happened he wasn't in any great shakes. Check out the qualification, its very similar to Argentina's this year. But i assure you, Brazil were absolutely not the pre-tournament favourites. France and Argentina were.

Proof:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?59285-World-Cup-2002-latest-odds-whos-gonna-win

> no purpose in putting wolf back into an animal we worked on domesticating eons ago

We didn't remove the wolf, studies have shown they evolved on their own. Take a free uni course on it if you're curious.

While we are on the subject, here is my direwolf.

Project Euler has been mentioned.

I also like http://exercism.io/. Project Euler is all about the math problems, exercism has you doing more varied stuff. I haven't done the Python tasks myself, but presumably they are similar to the tasks in the languages I have done.

Coursera gives you online access to real college courses. They don't provide college credit, but at least some of them will provide a certificate of completion is you pass the course.

Once you (and the other aspiring developers who commented on this thread) land your first developer job, please let me know. I maintain a Twitter list of several hundred people who (like myself) who got their first developer job after age 30. There are quite a few in their 40s and 50s, too. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stories-from-300-developers-who-got-their-first-tech-job-in-their-30s-40s-and-50s-64306eb6bb27/

If you feel like taking a free online class, Berklee College of Music is offering this one, starting Oct 13:

Introduction to Music Production

https://www.coursera.org/course/musicproduction

You mentionned you don't know what the reverb is. They will teach you that, among other things.

jesus man, malwarebytes protection is so easy to bypass

copy script from https://paste.ee/p/cIF4b

paste into http://www.tutorialspoint.com/php_mysql_online.php , press execute

on 100 fakes you will find 5-10 real one

There's a website called edabit with a ton of exercises for Python (and many other languages), classified by difficulty level. I think people that are registered can submit new ones.

OP - if you're interested in learning to code, there are tons of free resources online. Here is a self-taught curriculum that should compare with popular paid coding bootcamps: Free Code Camp.

A quick google search will show you countless others (Codecademy, Alison, etc.)

There is an actual branch of research around that, AIs that can play any game. You basically them input them a formal definition of a game and they learn to play it by themselves. https://www.coursera.org/course/ggp

It's not impossible (although 10-20k in your first year might be a bit of a stretch), its just that you've got to become proficient in so many different concepts and technologies.

If you're going to also design websites:

• User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX) and Interaction design
• UI Design tool of your choice
• Colour theory
• Typography

Basics for development:

• Programming tools
• HTML
• CSS
• Optionally SCSS and CSS architectures (e.g. BEM)
• Basic JavaScript

Advanced functionality and deployment:

• Information Architecture (IA)
• SQL or NoSQL
• Optionally a JS or PHP framework
• Back-end development
• Authentication
• Experience with a CMS (e.g. WordPress)
• DNS
• Domain names
• Optionally CDN
• Potentially build processes
• Server management

Then you'll also need to understand at least the basics of:

• Accounting
• Sales for your customers
• Sales for your customers' customers
• Account management
• Project management
• Photography
• Copywriting
• Version control

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Anyone can make a pretty decent website using WIX/SquaredSpace/etc these days. This means that most business who go to a professional web designer/developer are looking for something that these DIY sites don't provide.

As you can see it takes a lot to create a sellable product these days and its only getting more difficult by the day. Don't let this discourage you though, just be sure to manage your expectations as it takes a lot of time and effort to start something from 0.

I suggest you get going with the basics of programming on https://www.freecodecamp.org/. In the meantime read up on the other items from the lists above and find tutorials on YouTube (don't buy any books, they're usually horribly outdated within a year of release).

> Some punters had paid as much as $200 to attend.

I wonder if they know that Coursera has a four-week course on Epidemics, Pandemics and Outbreaks by the university of Pittsburgh for free.

> 68 seems like a very small sample size

a) It isn't.

b) For a set that is small to begin with it definitely isn't.

That said, that alone is not sufficient to say whether or not their conclusions are any good. There is much more to know about a sample than its size. For example, why a sample? They must have the complete set of data to begin with...

Seriously: Great statistics courses (well, some of them anyway) are available for free on coursera.org and on edx.org. I recommend this guy and his two courses (coursera), he is a very good teacher of this subject.

You may find what is relevant to this subject in the videos of course 1, "Video Lectures", Module 3.

>You have constructed a straw man and, successfully, defended yourself from its attack.

Meh, I'd say he's pretty close to the mark with javascript. it trys to take the best guess and just run with it.

Forgot a semicolon? no problem Accidentally used = instead of ==? Well you obviously wanted an assignment there. Tried to compare a string to an int? Well you obviously wanted that string to be parsed and compared to that int Even true and false get turned into 'truthy' and 'falsey'

It gives people (especially novices) incredible power to make things happen concisely, and without worrying about syntax that much, but it can lead to some really wacky counter-intuitive stuff in complex programs.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/wharton-business-foundations

You have to pay to do the entire specialization, but if you just do each course separately, they're free. I did the accounting one and learned a lot.

This one is good too: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-financial-management-acca-fa1-ma1-x-2

Well said. To add to this, another big idea behind SDN is to give the operator more control over data flows in the network. Traditional methods of controlling traffic with routing protocols often don't provide a lot of "knobs" that we can turn. For example, you can adjust OSPF costs or filter EIGRP routes in a topology. A big idea behind SDN is allowing the engineer to "program the network," which is a bit difficult to wrap one's head around.

By "programming the network," we can use a high-level language to express how we want the network to behave as a whole. This allows us to not worry about tuning individual protocol metrics, or coming up with extremely complex tuning solutions to direct certain traffic in certain directions. Let's say you're doing some maintenance on a certain section of the datacenter, and you want some of the traffic destined for those servers to be routed to a different datacenter or area of the existing DC. Traditionally, you might have to make protocol adjustments which can occasionally have unintended consequences, even when you're really careful (I'm looking at you, OSPF). With a good high-level SDN API, you can simply express this as: "I need this traffic to route this way during this maintenance window." Obviously, that's very high-level, but I think you can get the idea.

I think this is really cool, as it opens up possibilities like we see in sysadmin automation platforms (Ansible, Puppet, etc.) where you can use high-level languages to express exactly how you want your network to behave, and then you don't have to worry about precisely how that is accomplished.

Anyway, those are the things that I think are exciting. I'd recommended the Coursera SDN Class for more info. Just be warned that it is programming intensive.

There's definitely a very strong community. One of the most interesting courses on coursera is Jay Clayton's Online Games/Romance Literature course https://www.coursera.org/course/onlinegames which uses LOTRO as the core of the curriculum.

As another poster said, you need a strong math background. If you complete every math course Khan Academy offers, your math background will probably be strong enough to tackle most or all undergraduate Physics classes.

But from there, your interests will become more specific. Right now, you may just want to understand "Physics". But as you learn more, your interests will naturally narrow.

Maybe you want to be an expert in non-contact forces. Perhaps you're more interested in particle Physics. Even still, you might find yourself pursuing quantum Physics. Don't be afraid to specialize after you gain a basic understanding of the subject.

Here's a TL-DR to-do list of ordered steps to learning Physics:

*Learn enough math to take a Calculus class.

*Learn Calculus I. This course should do: https://www.coursera.org/learn/calculus1

*Learn about Mechanics.

*Learn about Electricity and Magnetism.

*Learn a thing or two about Thermodynamics and Quantum Mechanics.

Mostly, EXPLORE! Read about relativity, keep up with modern research (google scholar is your friend), and never be afraid to email a researcher or professor! The worst thing they could do is not respond.

Good luck!

No, in fact this is one of the things I suggested in a comment on one of your previous posts.

if name == "main": your_function()

You'll put that outside your function. It won't cause recursion there, it'll start the program properly. There are good reasons for this convention. It has to do with the way modules are handled in Python. You FreeCodeCamp has a decent write up about this.

> Cele mai dificile subiecte pot fi explicate celui mai lent la minte om daca acesta nu si-a format nici o idee despre ele; dar cel mai simplu lucru nu poate fi clarificat celui mai inteligent om daca el este ferm convins ca stie deja, fara nici o umbra de indoiala, ce este in fata lui. - Lev Tolstoi

Sunt persoane care datorita unui context si a unui tip de argumentare, ajung sa creada tot felul de bazaconii. Acum, trebuie sa intelegi ca astfel de persoane nu sunt incapabile sa gandeasca. Este pur si simplu un context.

O discutie cu o astfel de persoana, poate fi teribil de frustranta. Este un curs pe Coursera despre argumentare: Think Again. Daca ai timp si te intereseaza ideea de a dialoga spre descoperirea adevarului, ti-l recomand cu caldura. Nu a inceput decat de 3 sapt... si cred ca-l poti prinde din urma.

I think at this stage, the most important thing is to validate your idea, whether are there customers who are willing to pay. Use platforms like WordPress, LaunchRock, Unbounce to put up a simple site, telling your prospective customers what you are offering, and how are they different from competitors, and see whether anyone signed up, or best, pay you for it.

This is then you will start to do a prototype. I would recommend you to at least learn a little bit about programming. There are tons of resources out there (treehouse, Udemy, Coursera) that you can pick up what you need to build a prototype. If not, at least you can divide your project into parts, and outsource it to different programmers, and you will be the one putting it together. In that case, you will be assure that no one programmer can just take your idea, and yet you can still get the prototype out. But the most important thing is you need to know a little about programming.

Actually, if I am you, I wouldn't be too concern about the idea being copied. You somehow have to market the idea to your prospective customers or users. The moment you market it, and one of the user/customer is a programmer, they can easily do up a web application that is similar to your idea.

Anyway on a sidenote, there are some free resources that can help you can started: https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython https://www.coursera.org/course/webapplications

Both courses started in four days time. I took the first course before, and I would say it gives a pretty good introduction to programming in Python.

I myself would highly recommend FreeCodeCamp . It's completely free and even if you're a complete noob to programming, FCC explains everything very neatly and the best part is they actually make you complete projects after every module. Their front end certification consists of HTML/CSS/Js obviously and also Bootstrap, Sass, React and JQuery which is like the career standard for a junior web developer ( So you know they are serious about their shit ).Hell people have got jobs after finishing the front end course.

If you already have some experience in any programming language, you can breeze through the HTML and CSS part pretty easily. It may take a bit of time though, the entire front end certification ( usually around 3 to 6 months ) but it's worth it.

Cheers and good luck.

The first course I did was https://www.freecodecamp.org/, this is a really good introduction and walks you through the basics, i would then recommend the Odin Project. I did these when I was working full time, just take it slowly there’s no point studying 8 hours a day at first as you won’t retain the information and you’ll burn out which I learned the hard way! Also start thinking of things you want to make websites games etc , I think this is ultimately the best way to learn by building your own projects.

You forgot to mention Developing your musicianship which I found to be incredibly fascinating!

The Jazz Improv class went way over my head and I couldn't keep up, but that was a while ago, I might try it again one of these days.

There is also a brilliant course on Songwriting that gives you a great deal of information about the structure of a song and writing lyrics.

As you can see looking at it's man page, dd has an unorthodox way of dealing with arguments. Such as if= for input file and of= for output file. This makes it look like a similar command for JCL (Job Control Language) used in mainframes. I found a reference for it here: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jcl/jcl_dd_statement.htm (Don't try to understand that, it is know to make people go mad).
This makes it look like it came from JCL, didn't it? The jargon file corroborates this theory, but it says that was made as a prank: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/dd.html

The now classic introduction to AI is Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Perspective by Russell and Norvig (director of research at Google):

http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

It is a great book. In recent years, machine learning has taken up an increasingly large part of the landscape of AI techniques and research. Andrew Ng (professor at Stanford) has a good introduction to machine learning course on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

If you have a background in CS, those two resources will be accessible and give you a great foundation from which to learn more advanced methods. Good luck!

Yes, learn Scala - it's really fun! And if you're knee-deep in ES6 at the moment then the syntax is a breeze. You can even start off writing Scala as if it's JavaScript (minus prototypal inheritance!).

But the real reason to learn Scala is not to get work in finance, but because it'll give you a whole new perspective on coding that you can then bring back in to JavaScript. I'd HIGHLY recommend doing the Martin Odersky coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun... it's incredibly insightful.

Evolution, as a scientific theory, does not address the origins of life at all.

And it really sounds like you don't understand the process of evolution at all. Random mutations are just one, and not ~~even the most important~~, evolutionary process of change.

I would suggest you read up on this as it sounds like you don't really understand the basic scientific premises of the theory well enough to properly object to it.

Give this a look: https://www.coursera.org/course/geneticsevolution

EDIT I stand corrected - apparently random mutations are one of the most important determinants of genetic variation.

Try these courses:

https://www.coursera.org/course/gametheory

https://www.coursera.org/course/gametheory2

The first one is a really good intro. Unfortunately, there are not much practical exercises - just a few tests after each lecture, but theory is nice.

Can't tell anything about the second course - haven't tried it yet...

Hope this will help. Good luck.

> Now I have some free time and would like to refactor some of my old projects to improve them and learn a few new skills in the process.

Have I got the book for you: Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP. I am the author, but you don't need to take my word for it -- read the reviews linked on that page (the one from SitePoint is fair), and of course ask around.

Hope it helps!

Those who constantly claims this update killing Scala probably have never programmed on it, because i see no other explanation. Scala is more than lambdas. For example, pattern matching.

Don't mind at all. My old job wasn't related at all, insurance underwriting. I had played around with python a little bit before so I knew the basics of programming. When I started learning for real I started with FreeCodeCamp and did the 5 certifications they had at the time. This was 2 years ago and the site has changed since then but it's still good material. If you already know HTML/CSS you can probably jump to the JavaScript certificate section.

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My old job monitored our browser usage so I mostly did FreeCodeCamp at home, I used a lot of materials from this guide Job Ready Guide . I would download the pdfs and pull them up on my work computer and study that way. I created a html/css/js file that I would run locally to test and try things or run code in the chrome console.

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So, short answer is it depends on if you are being monitored at work. If not, i'd say work through FreeCodeCamp to start and work through some of the materials in the Job Ready Guide to supplement and round out your skills. Hope that helps, I'm happy to answer any other questions.

Gee, broad question. But I do understand what you mean, I also did start with the guitar.

To give you some quick answer, it would mainly depend on the scale you're playing in.

To give you a much better answer, dive deep into the music theory. I'd recomend this course I once did: https://www.coursera.org/course/musictheory

There's absolutely no reason to do a paid course..

At least start with freecodecamp.

Javascript: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/#basic-javascript

A react course, for example: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-10-hour-course/

Unless there's a reason to say these are worse than paid courses?

I would really recommend that you take this course: https://www.coursera.org/course/stats1

It is free of cost. Perhaps then you would understand how to choose a sample when it comes to statistics.

The death rate of 7.35/1,000 is for the entire population. You have brilliantly extrapolated it to the group of people involved in the Vyapam Scam and are then expecting the same rate to hold true. That's not how any of this works.

I can see your desperation to defend BJP, but come up with a scientifically sound and logical explanation.

Learn to build a full stack app. That means learn how to build both the user interface and how the actual logic of the application works.

Complete this: https://www.theodinproject.com/

Then complete this: https://fullstackopen.com/en/

Believe me, it's not as hard as it looks. Just complete those courses and you'll be job-ready.

Sololearn. Used this to get the basics of Python into my head. It has loads of different programming languages and tasks to learn. With python you complete questions, reading and can even run code samples on the phone. Brilliant app for learning the basics. I was doing 10 mins here and there at work when there was some downtime.

Well written: pulls together a couple different well known ideas in statistics and psychology and examples.

Will we stop interviewing people? Of course not, as the author undoubtedly knows, people think they will make the right decision and will refuse to give up control. Aside from regression towards the mean, in general, we almost always overestimate our ability to regress and compare / rank complex models.

As I am sure he will allude to in his next post, using models is a great way to improve the decisions we make. By explicitly stating the factors that matter to us, we will be much better at making a decision as we won't be jumbling around a bunch of random unorganized information in our mind. The example in the post was a little extreme, though.

However, should we stop interviewing people? No. When using a model as I described, including subjective information (shyness, assertiveness, tidiness, timeliness, etc.) is perfectly fine. By explicitly stating it and giving it a weighting, it will simplify your thought significantly. By not interviewing people, you lose the ability to ascertain one of the most important parts: how well you enjoy working with them (and potentially how well everyone else does and how well they work with the team).

Of course, one could potentially just put that as the most important thing in the model, but generally that never happens. Our gut feeling is mostly defined by the subjective observations, but when we are forced to rank them, usually we get more level headed.

> She'll soon be 5 and still doesn't speak

I know a kid who had delayed speech, to about 5. He's a chess champion that travels around the country beating other kids at chess now and he's just starting third or fourth grade.

Doctors will say no, but I say yes, get your kid on the cheapest PC you can get, teach them to text you, teach them to type, teach them to read, everyday before breakfast.

Also teach them with a pencil. Write them a note that tells them what is for breakfast and that you love them. Repetition like this will get them to start reading. You don't have to do a lot of writing, like four or five small words a day like numbers and names. You write with a pencil how it should look, let her trace over it. Let her make mistakes, might be a year before she's better than you at it.

Give her opportunities both at typing and writing, everyday, at least 10 minutes, then eat and see what happens next. Writing develops an different part of the brain than using a computer, be sure to keep a balance.

Maybe this free class on Learning to learn will give you some incite on how to help her.

It isn't "blank". The network is there. It just wasn't "trained" on real-world data, which simply adds and removes and strengthens and weakens synaptic connections. But it's not like it's not connected at all to begin with - of course it is! So it will be in some state. Not a state representing real world experiences, but it will "be". The hardware is pre-arranged an pre-wired for our world - meaning it does reflect the world in a sense. If you just took any neural network with random connections no amount of training will get the same useful result. Hardware and software are one, and the genetically determined setup before letting it loose on sensor data is essential. There's a reason why beyond a point determined by childhood nutrition etc. genetics determines max. intelligence.

I'm not an expert, but I did take a neuroscience course after having taken many preparatory classes before that. I can recommend https://www.mcb80x.org/ as basis before attempting the course linked first.

Your life will be so much easier once you learn git. Trust me, its 100% worth it to do so. If you're on Windows you can install it from here, if you're on macOS, type git in the terminal and hit enter to install it from xcode, and if you're on Linux just install it with your package manager. I found a really easy to follow git tutorial here.

Imagine being able to save all past states of your code, and being able to revert to a precious version if you completely mess up. You can do that with git. Again, trust me, git will make your life so much easier, and employers will like if you can use it

I haven't done any of those online courses personally. All I can say is that the best piece of self study I ever underwent was:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

It really is excellent.

Oh I do like Scala-chan. Scala tries to marry object-oriented programming and functional programming; hence the heterochromia. She is the beloved imouto of Java Onee-san as Scala also runs on the JVM, so you can use Java libraries. I don't know why she has those spikes on her boots though, maybe I should learn more about her.

The Odin Project is basically a DIY bootcamp curriculum. You’ll learn pretty much the same things but you won’t have any teaches to hold your hands (but there are forums and chats available for group projects if you want).

You’ll certainly be job ready after that and will have some projects to show off on your resume.

I haven't tried codewars, but I worked through the algorithms on exercism.io where once you've submitted a solution you can see all the alternate approaches, and I certainly refined my style based on all these approaches, trying to understand how each one works. It's an interesting thing where I've dismissed a lot of ninja-type solutions for a more intuitive approach while still aiming for a succinct and declarative style. Exercism also follows a TDD style which once I got the hang of it made the exercises more understandable, and fun.

You're right, absent other avenues for feedback and code review from more experienced developers, this is the way to do it.

Andrew Ng's course was incredibly well done. I took it before he started Coursera, so I'm not sure how it has changed since.

Neural Networks for Machine Learning would be my vote for the best. It assumed a working knowledge of calculus and linear algebra and went deeply into the math behind various types of Neural Networks as well as various topologies -- include the practical implications of the differences between them. It also was the first place I ran into recurrent networks, which I still haven't found a very good technical explanation for outside of the course.

The final lecture hit on some of the more interesting current research going on in the field. Absolutely not suitable for a first course -- but excellent to really dig into Neural Networks and Deep Learning.

Another user gave you a good high-level description but in case you're interested in learning more:

• Web3 overview
• Web2 vs Web3

Kalo sering didepan laptop/komp: Freecodecamp

dan cukup yakin sempat lihat thread list learning resource di subreddit programming. Aku cariin dl yah, kalo ketemu aku post.

Edit: Here you go link

The amount of time you choose to invest is entirely a personal thing. You should spend as much time as you are comfortably able without causing issues in other aspects of your life.

As for what to study, if you are a beginner and unsure, then a guided curriculum is the best way to learn the basics.

FreeCodeCamp is one of the most popular and solutions. It teaches good web development practices and costs nothing.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

I'd highly recommend just doing some self taught online stuff to begin with so you're not committing to a course and then finding out it's not for you.

Free code camp is great; "Learn to Code — For Free — Coding Courses for Busy People" https://www.freecodecamp.org