Ho. Le. Crap.

I’ve known about the MIT OpenCourseware stuff for a while now, and even had that site bookmarked, to go along with my ambitious plans to work through 6.001 on my own.

What I didn’t know until tonight was that you can actually download a whole freaking wheelbarrow full of OpenCourseWare stuff for free through iTunes U. Unfortunately, 6.001 isn’t on that list, but 6.00 and 6.046J are. (And 6.00 is taught using Python! Yes! Two, two, two mints in one!) I find it difficult to articulate why I’m so blown away by this; but yet, I am.

Mike, you might find this interesting, too (though technically it isn’t courseware).

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3 Responses to “Ho. Le. Crap.”

  1. Largo says:
    September 26, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    A blog by a Pythonista with no comments to be found? I cannot allow that to continue.

  2. stainles says:
    September 26, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Largo:

    Thanks for the comment. For the record, I don’t consider myself to be a Pythonista yet; I’m just slowly working in that direction.

    Which is part of the reason I’m excited about being able to get 6.00 online; I’m thinking it will give me a structured way to learn Python.

    (I’m mostly a Perl (because I’ve done actual hacks for work with it) and Java (because I’ve had academic exposure to it) guy, though I’m kind of rusty in both.)

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