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Re: Coursera: Free online courses from top unis

by Madfish on 2013/8/24 4:58:55

Stanford University's free online cryptography course will run again on 9 September. If you have an interest in security I highly recommend it (again!).

It will be followed by a second extension course afterwards.
Re: Coursera: Free online courses from top unis

by Madfish on 2013/1/17 18:57:06

Just a reminder that the next run of the free Cryptography I course started a few days ago, you are still in time to sign up.

I did this course last year and it really was excellent. One of the best parts is that each week they give you a cryptography system to attack as (optional extra) homework (you need basic scripting skills to solve these). These often show how an apparently trivial weakness or oversight can be exploited to totally break an otherwise unbreakable system.

If you have any interest in computer security I thoroughly recommend this course to you. It is by no means a walk over and if you've forgotten most of your high school maths like I had you may struggle a bit!

There's a heap more courses kicking off in January, check out their site. I'm going to do some remedial maths courses before tackling calculus again - and then maybe some programming and physics, with the aim of getting into the Open Pilot (UAVs) and OpenROV project. Robots man, I am going to build flying and diving robots!!!

As soon as I saw Coursera I knew this was going to be a monster, and it is. They already have 2.3 million students, and more than 200 courses to choose from. Enjoy!
Re: Coursera: Free online courses from top unis

by Madfish on 2012/9/13 7:53:12

Just completed the first week. I am very much impressed with the quality of the lessons, and the assessment is quite challenging. I think we are seeing the beginning of a major disruption to traditional education. They've created a monster :)
Re: Coursera: Free online courses from top unis

by fiammybe on 2012/9/11 14:57:53

Interesting site. I'll have to keep it in mind for next year. Our firstborn has just arrived, so I'll have some additional time constraints from now on.
Re: Coursera: Free online courses from top unis

by QM-B on 2012/9/11 7:52:45

Nice site.. thanks for sharing