{"id":241,"date":"2012-02-26T09:09:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T07:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2012-02-26T09:09:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T07:09:47","slug":"studying-again-at-my-age-udacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/studying-again-at-my-age-udacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying again &#8212; at my age: Udacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I want to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.udacity.com\/\">Udacity<\/a>, a online Univercity if you like and I quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we&#8217;ve connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently they are running 2 cources<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CS 101: BUILDING A SEARCH ENGINE<\/li>\n<li>CS 373: PROGRAMMING A ROBOTIC CAR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have enrolled for both but not sure whether I will have the time for the Robotic one. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have just completed the first week of the Search Engine one and must say that I enjoyed the way it was teached and the pace at which it was run. &nbsp;I even did the homework assignment so am eagerly awaiting on how I did with my homework. The course is presented as a series of videos with questions and exercise throughout. &nbsp;The interactivity is well done and it even has a browser based Python interpretor, so one does not need to install anything on one&#8217;s computes.<\/p>\n<p>The course is using <a href=\"http:\/\/python.org\/\">Python<\/a> to build a search engine, I come from a Sofware Development background with years of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cprogramming.com\/\">C, C++<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\/\">PHP<\/a> behind me but has never realy learned <a href=\"http:\/\/python.org\/\">Python<\/a>. &nbsp;Also just like to mention that I am over 50 years old so studying is a new experience again but as they say, one is never to old to learn. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to receiving my homework assignment result and week 2 of the course.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I want to talk about Udacity, a online Univercity if you like and I quote: We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we&#8217;ve connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. Currently they are running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[109],"tags":[101,110,111],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","tag-programming","tag-python","tag-udacity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-3T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}