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Friday 23 October 2015

Interactive Online Programming Courses

In contrast to the single serving format provided by interactive tutorials, many people prefer to learn in Massively Open Online Courses - a format similar to those provided at universities. Thanks to the internet, many courses have been put online to offer interactive methods to take a full course on programming. Coursera provides content from 16 different universities and has been used by more than one million “courserians.” Much of the science behind computer science is taught there with Stanford University provided some excellent courses on topics like Algorithms, Cryptography, and Logic.

Harvard, Berkeley and MIT have teamed up to offer a large number of courses on the edX website. With courses like software as a service (SAS) and Artificial Intelligence, the edX system is an excellent source of modern instruction on fairly new technologies.

Udacity is a smaller and more basic provider of interactive courseware with instruction on things like how to build a blog, testing software and building a search engine. In addition to providing online courses, Udacity also hosts meetups in 346 cities around the world for those that benefit from in person interactions as well.

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