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Ask HN: Which courses/classes are you excited about in 2025?

30 points by mofeeta ↗ HN
I'm thinking of signing up for one of David's courses: https://www.dabeaz.com/courses.html. I've heard they're intense and very well done.

Anyone have any other courses or classes (not necessarily tech-related) they're looking forward to in 2025?

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dvt
Taking a 3-month Salsa dance class starting early January. I've never been good at dance so I'm low key kind of excited. Might meet someone, too, you never know :)
viewtransform
Walked into a drop-in salsa dance class at the Berkeley YWCA two decades ago.

Got hooked from the first class and it was a gateway drug to swing and argentine tango. Hope you have a good time.

emmanueloga_
Just curious, is this with some particular dance company or studio/instructor?
qrush
Still trying to get a food co-op off the ground here in Boston, and I am looking forward to the annual virtual conference of live videos that are basically the latest-in-industry news and updates about patterns and more others are doing from the Food Co-op Initiative:

https://www.youtube.com/user/foodcoopinitiative

doctorpangloss
MathAcademy was good but I just ran out of time every day to do it, and it was way too remedial for me. I was using it to learn advanced math relevant for my work, but it was taking me over stuff for standardized testing for high schoolers. The creator is active here and I sincerely think it’s a good product, but not right for me.
Emphere
+1. I was excited for it and it sounded nice in theory but in practice it was just too much of a slog for me. I picked it up because I have a non-traditional math background and while I more or less know calc + LA, I do lack fluency with the concepts. Perhaps I am wrong, but at my level I feel that I don't need to go through 10 trivial variations of the same theme and many foundational concepts could be massively condensed. I am instead progressing much faster just picking up a textbook and referring back to precalculus books to fill in holes where needed.
DamnYuppie
I am finally going to learn to play the Piano. I have tried in the past and found I really enjoy the practicing yet I would let life get in the way and fall off.
carlinm
Are you planning to use something online to learn? If so, what?
DamnYuppie
I use my iPad and a few of the apps. It is quite fun actually, you can stop, restart parts you don't like, put it into loops, speed up sections or slow them down.
lewisleclerc
That's great. Where are you learning it from?
DamnYuppie
Previously I used my iPad with an app on it so was going to do the same thing again.
DanielVZ
Same here! I started by myself going through Bartok’s mikrokosmos which has helped me a ton with reading but after getting my digital piano fixed in January (only the left half makes any sound) I’m starting with my own lessons.
moribvndvs
A Japanese language course at the community college after getting sort of burned out on apps and Anki decks. Hoping I can make friends with some native speakers, or at least other students interested in practice.
sshine
A course made a big difference for me after solo’ing through the first part of covid.
codetrotter
In 2025 I want to:

- Learn to scratch like Hip-Hop DJs.

- Make one techno track that could pass off as something that a local DJ in some random city would play and that the people in that room would enjoy.

I have previously taken in-person piano lessons, and I've spent quite a bit of time in Ableton and with MPC X, and with a few different keyboards and a drum machine. I have a mid-range DJ controller at home, the Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3.

Music is a hobby for me, and I cannot dedicate anywhere near full time to it in 2025. But if I can do these two things, then 2025 would be a great year in terms of my music hobby.

cebert
I’ve started learning piano using the Simply app paired with a keyboard. It’s been surprisingly fun and a nice mental break for me.
daft_pink
I really want to take the how to solve it with code jeremy howard course, but it was already full by the time that I heard about it. So I probably shouldn’t be mentioning it on this thread. LOL

https://solveit.fast.ai

edanm
Same here. And I heard about it like a day after they talked about it... :)

Hoping another class opens up.

suranyami
Not a course, as such, but reading “Measurement” by Paul Lockhart, of “A Mathematician’s Lament fame.

I’ve never read anything that so clearly communicates and leads you into a state of mind that COMPELS you to prove mathematical conjectures from first principles.

I found myself furiously sketching geometric proofs and simplifying algebraic conundrums with an enthusiasm I haven’t experienced in decades.

And a course on sewing for beginners and continuing Japanese.