FILL THAT MALNOURISHED MEAT-BUCKET YUO CALL A HEAD, BOB SPAGGOTS

[navkat]

For a while, Stanford has been offering free online engineering courses for the public free of charge. You don't get the credit but the education is out there for anyone with the gumption and wile.

Stanford has decided this fall to offer three engineering/comp-sci courses that you can HAND IN TESTS AN ASSIGNMENTS AND GET REAL CREDIT...

For FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.



There's no penalty if you fail or drop. I know some of you monkeys are just a little smarter than the rest of the simians and can DO this.

DO IT.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Damn, I wish it wasn't computer science!

[navkat]

Me too. I wish it didn't involve teh maths.

[Freeky]

D:  I am not at the level of stuffs I need to know to take thi shit and succeed at it.  FUCK.

[Nadezhda]

Oh my god, anything engineering is sexy... This is amazing.

[Elder Iptuous]

hell, yeah.
i'm there.

[Rumckle]

Cool thanks navkat, I may have to sign up to one of those

[Disco Pickle]

Oh I'm all over this.  Thanks for the link nyankat

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Me too. I wish it didn't involve teh maths.

I like math. I like science. Computers, though? Useless.

[navkat]

Oh I'm all over this.  Thanks for the link nyankat

Mmmmm...pickle.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

This is a fantastic opportunity. And it's nothing I have a grasp of. I think I'm going to check out the first few lectures of each and see what happens. Thanks for the head's up, navkat.

[East Coast Hustle]

I checked this out and while it's totally awesome and amazing, they don't seem to offer any courses on ACTUAL engineering, just computer crap.

Unless someone can tell me how being able to program an iPhone app is going to get a marine diesel engine back to life in an emergency, I don't think I have much use for it.

[Kai]

Or you could, you know, just watch Khan Academy.

AFAIC, unless you're actually trying to get a degree for some purpose (e.g. job opportunity, research), there's no reason to care about "credit". The only credit that matters when you are choosing to educate yourself for your own benefit of increased intelligence and knowledge is that itself. A degree is just a piece of paper that "proves" you met some sort of standard of understanding or research experience.

[Elder Iptuous]

you don't actually get credit for these courses, from what i've seen.  you get a 'certificate of completion' issued by the prof.  that says how well you did.
the attraction to me is that they're engineering courses offered by a well regarded university where there is actually some interaction with the professor, and it's free.

[East Coast Hustle]

They are NOT engineering courses, they are computer courses erroneously called "engineering" courses.