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A Free Education: March 2016

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016. I've decided to work through SICP. So far, its reputation as a classic text that has withstood the test of time seems well deserved. I've been targeting one sub-chapter a week, so factoring in an extra 50% for distractions and presumed difficulty of later chapters, it will take me the remainder of the year to finish. It seems like emacs may have better indentation support, but learning a new editor still escapes me. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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A Free Education: December 2016

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016. After another long hiatus due to work travel, I've started looking at content on Coursera and Udacity again. It seems like the breadth and depth of classes has expanded significantly in the past year - with a much stronger monetization push in the "modular credential" model. Are people actually paying? It would appear that recent valuation. Puts Udacity's value at $1BN. which factors in significant growth expectation based on a rumored run rate of around $25MM.

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A Free Education: January 2015

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Monday, January 26, 2015. Working through the first twenty or so lessons from Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way. Has been interesting but slow going - a completely open-ended autodidactic mode is pretty difficult to maintain. To review some algorithms, I've joined Sedgewick's recurring Algorithms Part 1. So this should serve as a good language refresher as well. Monday, January 19, 2015. The "Unfaithful" Sieve of Eratosthenes. Given an input list of integers to start, the algorithm iterates through a secon...

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A Free Education: July 2015

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. A quick post before July expires. I've been following Algorithms for DNA Sequencing. On Coursera this month. As one might imagine, it's mainly about algorithms related to string / sequence matching and alignment. The "sequence assembly". Problem is something I haven't come across before and is quite intriguing - especially how it relates to the history of the human genome project. Http:/ pynash.org/2013/03/06/timing-and-profiling.html. It turns out that calling in dict.keys().

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A Free Education: Hiatus, JSON

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016. After another long hiatus due to work travel, I've started looking at content on Coursera and Udacity again. It seems like the breadth and depth of classes has expanded significantly in the past year - with a much stronger monetization push in the "modular credential" model. Are people actually paying? It would appear that recent valuation. Puts Udacity's value at $1BN. which factors in significant growth expectation based on a rumored run rate of around $25MM.

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A Free Education: May 2015

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Saturday, May 30, 2015. After another hiatus, I've finished the six week Nand to Tetris. Part I) course on Coursera. Presumably, Part II is all about building Tetris for the HACK computer, which should be an interesting challenge. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Some thoughts on a free education in computer science via MOOCs and such. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.

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A Free Education: June 2015

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015. I've been doing some old Google Code Jam programs for fun. One paradigm that comes up repeatedly as a useful tool is Dynamic Programming (DP). In this one called "Welcome to Code Jam". For example, it is fairly obvious that the complexity of naive approaches will increase dramatically with large datasets. A DP algorithm, on the other hand, solves the problem handily in O(mn). Time, where m. Is defined by number of characters in the problem text and n. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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A Free Education: December 2014

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Friday, December 26, 2014. In addition to working on Haskell, I'd like to start learning some C in 2015. I've started working through the online version of Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way. Since I work on both Windows and OS X (and carry a Chromebook around), I've been using Digital Ocean's. Think like a Fundamentalist, Code like a Hacker. I've just finished Eric Meijer's Intro to Functional Programming. And Real World Haskell. There's a good example in Graham Hutton's Programming in Haskell. At least fo...

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A Free Education: August 2015

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Friday, August 28, 2015. Longest Subpalindrome in Linear Time. I've finally rewritten the linear time algorithm for finding the longest palindromic substring ("subpalindrome") within a given string. I originally came across this problem in Peter Norvig's class on Udacity. And have worked on it quite a bit since then. Algorithm Description and Visualization. Http:/ tarokuriyama.com/projects/palindrome2.php. Saturday, August 15, 2015. The blacksmith puzzle from a previous blog post. Tuesday, August 11, 2015.

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A Free Education: New Coders Survey 2016

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016. New Coders Survey 2016. Brief analysis of the dataset from the Free Code Camp's New Coders Survey 2016:. Https:/ github.com/tkuriyama/notebooks/blob/master/New Coders Survey 2016.ipynb. TLDR; coding schools / bootcamps yield mixed results, but there are lots of folks interested in coding and lots of resources available beyond Udacity and Coursera. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Some thoughts on a free education in computer science via MOOCs and such. New Coders Survey 2016.