Another Player In the World of Free, Open Online CS Courseware 64
dncsky1530 writes "UNSW professor Richard Buckland, lecturer of the famous Computing 1 course on YouTube, is now running a large scale open online Computer Science course for the world. UNSW Computing 1 — PuzzleQuest and the Art of Programming starts off with microprocessors and works it way through C with interactive activities while taking students on an adventure of hacking, cracking and problem solving. It's based around a three month long PuzzleQuest with grand and suspiciously unspecified prizes as well as fame and glory for the intrepid. The next class starts December 3rd 2012."
Richard! (Score:1, Insightful)
My 1st-year comp lecturer on Slashdot! What a legend.
Re:Crikey Cheryl thats a Crock! (Score:5, Insightful)
I haven't watched the lecture yet but if you think pointers and hash tables aren't worthy of 30 minutes each then I doubt you fully understand hash tables and pointers.
Understanding how these and other key memory mechanisms work is the secret to fast and efficient code. Your compiler simply won't fix this for you.
Re:Crikey Cheryl thats a Crock! (Score:4, Insightful)
really liked it actually, thank you for flaming a good episode.
hash tables are pretty important, and he almost covered everything quite entertainingly. He definitely makes his students listen, very good teacher.
I agree, MIT and CMU do brilliant stuff too, but I am not sure, if watching the best will help you understand them, especially after reading your comment