ILX University - first course?

wld Intro to Computer Science teach me how to do things like 'have a simple understanding of my laptop' and 'make websites' or wld you have to come to the table w/ knowledge like that for a harvard course?

it assumes zero knowledge--in the first lecture the prof takes pains to point out that 77% of the people in the room have no prior CS experience

tear down this poll

im prolly just gonna keep reading the Keith Richards biography because i'm a half-wit

haha I was **told** to start this before people forgot

if it's seems like it's working we can come up w/ some more options soon

I'm willing to turn this into a nom thread, the prob is if we end up w/ 30 nominations I expect a tie / lots of vote splitting within subjects? surely there's something here that would work?

let's just take one from this bunch and then do another one

if it* seems like

(votes for english 101)

i cast a vote for moral foundations of politics

Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (Yale)
European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present (Berkeley)
Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale)

top three

I feel like chemistry would make for a sort of boring thread? idk. It just doesn't seem like the kind of class that would be a good choice here even though I'd love to take it again.

yeah I was just trying to find a token hard science class and anything beyond basic would require background

i'd prefer something that i can kind of just listen to tbh--anything with important video or add'l materials is going to become annoying.

this is a really good idea

voted for 'moral foundations of politics' but would probably be up for any of these except the roman architecture. i'm not sure how 'science and cooking' would *work* but

Financial Markets (Yale)

taught by famous economist robert shiller btw

Financial Markets

Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale) sounds good, but I can imagine the discussion thread going pretty haywire.

Science and Cooking

Intro to CS probably won't teach you anything of practical use like HTML or how to fix your computer, it will be more about getting you into the zone for thinking analytically like a compsci. What's the fastest way to sort a list of numbers?, what's a variable? and that kind of thing.

it's the latter along with learning C, XHTML/CSS, and how to employ APIs.

Moral foundations of politics, assuming there's actually a section on critical thinking

voted for Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (Yale), that and Comp Sci are the only two I'm interested in

xp Is it this course? http://academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-computer-science-i

That seems to cover a lot of material, way more than I expected.

no it is this, which is currently ongoing, but also previous semesters archived at harvard's distance learning

https://www.cs50.net/lectures/

oh sorry, yeah, that's the course

seems to have divided the lectures differently though?

financial markets one might be interesting if it's not dogmatic

robert shiller is a left-wing housing economist

science & cooking would normally be my first choice but it would be an easy a for me. i like the challenge of a good dry finance course.

xp, i've read shiller.

by dogmatic I thought you meant 'right-wing finance dogmatic'

in either sense; i'm more interested in learning than debating. the left-wing professors in my program could be hard to take when they had a political agenda to push.

Shouldn't the first course be a consomme?

bread, perhaps?

iirc I watched the first class or two of this one and 'good' and 'dry' are both adjectives I'd use...shiller's not a radical or very loud.

still looking at the wine list over here.

Financial Markets is the only one of these I feel genuinely insecure about not understanding very well, and i guess that's the whole idea behind this?

what is 77?

oh boy

intro to 77 (yale)

classes I've already basically taken:

General Chemistry (Berkeley)
European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present (Berkeley)
Intro to Computer Science (Harvard)

shit I would just, like, read a book about instead of taking a university-level class about it:

Intro to Roman Architecture (Yale)
Science and Cooking (Harvard)
Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale)
Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (Yale)

things I would prefer to study in a collegiate environment:

Intro to Hebrew Bible (Yale)
Financial Markets (Yale)

Financial Markets sounds awful to me which means it's probably the one that I should do but I don't wanna!

I prefer my university courses to be dry and information-dense rather than open-ended philosophical discussions

well none of them are going to be open-ended discussions; they're all lecture classes!

well the thread will be the open-ended discussion! ideally

"open-ended philosophical discussion" was mostly aimed at "Moral Foundations of Politics" since it has to do with morality

I just watch tons and tons of TED talks.

most interested in

Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale)

most in need of financial markets but it'd wreck me

don't forget advanced bikery

in what way do i need to know how to ride a bike

i am into all of them except for Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (Yale) b/c i think evolutionary biology is 99% poseur bullshit.

okay wait i typed the wrong word up there, meaning 'psychology' instead of 'biology' but i was kinda tempted to let it stand and let people think i was a closet creationist

lol yeah you scared me for a second

any nods for 2nd and 3rd mods?

do we really need em? considering it's gonna be like 2 threads atm

maybe just add em when someone wants to start a new course

fair fair, was just thinking we are both EST

almost bought myth of the rational market the other day

― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 11:54 (Yesterday) Bookmark

you should buy it!

will do this! just currently have a helluva stack to get thronow it's worth it though :)

so there are 26 lectures for financial markets and 28 for euro civ, so presumably they'll be twice a week?

maybe m-w one of them and tu-th the other?

wow that was supposed to say "helluva stack to get through, good to know it's worth it though"

lol @ computers xp

ILXniversity! this is gonna rock.

can't wait for the animosity & pranks between economics and history majors at ILX uni

NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRD
(works both ways)

panty bomb on the quad!!

gonna see how many of us we can squeeze into the phone booth

∞

^ what does it say about me that i have learned the keyboard shortcut for ∞

∞? I just cut and pasted it from yours.

too much time on ilx

xp

shortcut to infinity is already a scifi movie or s/t right?

Shitfucker, financial markets, you BASTARDS. This is going to be a total slog.

no *promises*

but my gf is a grad student at a place w/ all the reading material for financial markets and the library has a scanner. it is possible I can sneak in and if it doesn't take too long, could prob get most of the reading digital? while she's busy doing her grad school thing. soonest this would be would be like, the friday after next. and I'd need enough people to be 100% in it.

!

Wait so who is running the Euro course? That's the one I'm gonna do. Remy, is it you?

could also poss get some of the reading material off aaaarg.org?

looks like that doesn't exist anymore, but it's an interesting idea...kinda amazing it didn't happen sooner

ok just to share i googled aaaarg.org for my edification and first hit =

AAAARG
aaaarg.org/ -
AAAARG.ORG is now at A.AAAARG.ORG.

in fact a quick search suggests that yes, the big textbook w/ most of the material is already out there in pdf form

'big textbook' being the mcgraw-hill one?

F0undations 0f fin@ncial m@rkets and instituti0ns

yah

there are a shit ton of books on that reading list! wondering how particularly key each is

by F4bozzi?

can't see it on a a a a a r g (up to five as now!)

I just googled its name + 'pdf' and stuff came up. I imagine any major college textbook is ~out there~

A.AAAARG.ORG.

still around - if you took out that first dot you'd get there

so there are two versions of the euro history course up, only seeing the syllabus for one. most of the course material is publicly available stuff that won't take long to collect links to. there is a textbook too, we might be able to find it.

what is aaaarg?

n@pster for t3xtb00kz

absolutely no moral qualms w/ that, college textbook market is pretty indefensible

My wife has shovelled out something close to $500 in textbooks for the one class she is taking at community college this semester.

Just bein' maybe paranoid, but we might want to deindex or go more private if we're in the ahem grey areas of textbook acquisition. Prob no thing but academic publishers can be aggressive.

otm

That is sound advice, woof.

i think i might be interested in doing a course when another one picks up but i think i don't want to do any of the ones listed on the first round! does anyone want to take the class called "death" from yale? lol

I watched about 60% of that like a year ago

some interesting stuff and a cool professor tho unfortunately no answer w/r/t meaning of life