{"id":1422,"date":"2011-11-21T02:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2011-11-21T02:41:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:41:35","slug":"free-online-cs-courses-taught-by-stanford-faculty-q1-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/free-online-cs-courses-taught-by-stanford-faculty-q1-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Online CS Courses Taught by Stanford Faculty Q1 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1423\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1423\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1423\" title=\"freecourses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/freecourses-540x303.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/freecourses-540x303.png 540w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/freecourses-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/freecourses-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/freecourses.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free Online Courses<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently taking the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.db-class.org\/course\/auth\/welcome\">Intro to Databases<\/a> course taught by the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/infolab.stanford.edu\/~widom\/\">Professor Widom<\/a>. The course consists of video lectures with homework exercises, quizzes and midterms. There is also a helpful Q&amp;A forum for students when you get stuck.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of 2012, there are more free online courses available, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.algo-class.org\/\">Design and Analysis of Algorithms I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs101-class.org\/\">Computer Science 101<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jan2012.ml-class.org\/\">Machine Learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.game-theory-class.org\/\">Game Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crypto-class.org\/\">Cryptography<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The classes are high quality and perfect for you if you can spend more than a few hours a week per course. As they are free, the courses don&#8217;t offer any official Stanford certificates, grades, or credit. You do get a Statement of Accomplishment from the instructor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d recommend these courses to anyone as they are free, and any investment in your time will be easily rewarded with an understanding in increasingly relevant present-future topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently taking the free Intro to Databases course taught by the excellent Professor Widom. The course consists of video lectures with homework exercises, quizzes and midterms. There is also a helpful Q&amp;A forum for students when you get stuck. In the beginning of 2012, there are more free online courses available, including: Design and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[952,906,951,23,254,953,954,949,905,950],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-algo","tag-course","tag-cs","tag-database","tag-free","tag-game-theory","tag-ml","tag-online","tag-stanford","tag-statement-of-accomplishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}