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Ask HN: Holy grails of free, online courses?

86 points by tdoubleu ↗ HN
I've recently gone through Karpathy's Zero-to-Hero course (https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html) and the content is just superb. What other courses like this exist?

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PaulHoule
I like the Python course on HackerRank.
syndicatedjelly
Dan Grossman’s Programming Language series on Coursera is one of the best courses I’ve taken at any level of education

For guitarists, Paul Davids’ courses through his website are excellent

beeburrt
Is that the one that uses Standard ML?
deanmoriarty
Would you recommend this for a proficient programmer with a decade of experience in non functional languages?
Jtsummers
If you have any interest in functional programming and higher-order programming, or understanding the functional parts of languages you use now, then I'd say yes. At least as the course was structured a decade ago or whenever I took it. A lot of "non-functional" languages have functional influences. If you'd like to get a better idea of what those are and how they can be used more effectively and for higher-order programming, it would be a good course to take.
syndicatedjelly
In addition to what the other comment says, I found that his class drastically sped up my ability to pick up new programming languages. The class teaches an underlying "grammar" that's common to all programming languages, almost like a linguistic approach. I also learned a "meta-language" by which to speak about (and effectively Google/research) any programming languages.
beeburrt
There's cs61a:

https://cs61a.org/

(I'm doing the Denero version: https://cs61a.org/denero.html) If you pass the command-line flag: `--local` you can run the tests without triggering the submission system.

accompanying book:

https://www.composingprograms.com/

The moocs from University of Helsinki are really good. Here's the current Python one:

https://programming-23.mooc.fi/

And there's their web dev course, called Full Stack Open:

https://fullstackopen.com/en/

If learning web dev, you can't go wrong with The Odin Project:

https://www.theodinproject.com/

muzani
edX had some absolutely amazing free courses that still is a part of me. They were really tough though
the__alchemist
MitX quantum mechanics series. And intro to Bio. And molecular bio. And, of course, Khan.

A lot of the MitX couses from 2017-2020ish were outstanding.