It's a great question to find some hidden gems!
Personally, I prefer taking courses on edX.
In my opinion, it is one of the best online sources of learning out there, speaking from experience.
Many prestigious and well-known institutes such as MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, etc. worked and keep working collectively to provide high-quality material (lectures, labs, assignments) with each course having an exceptional community which will be present at all times to guide you and answer your questions.
Also, there are many inspiring stories of learners from around the world, who have spent time taking courses on edX.
Whatever platform or class you take, just remember that you get out of it only what you put in. You cannot learn by observing - you need to jump in and engage deeply with the content. Enjoy!
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Learning how to learn is a highly acclaimed course out there. Would definitely suggest you give it a try. It's a bit slow-paced but the information there will surely help. There's a synonymous book for the course called A mind for numbers
Martin Odersky's "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" on Coursera is the best CS MOOC I've taken (in-progress), and I've taken a few.
Not only do you have the inventor of the language himself teaching the course, but the pace is perfect such that it's not so slow that you get bored or fast that you get lost. But I think this bit will depend a lot on the student (I have no functional programming experience).
The best thing though is that all the annoying boilerplate setup etc that will usually bog you down when you start a new language is almost completely taken care of by the course. Martin has you clone a git repo, the repo is all setup and JustWorks, and the assignment submission is automated, so you never need to leave the IDE / command line except to check the results of your submission and to watch the lessons.
edX is great! Coursera is ok too, but honestly some of the best classes I have taken have been on Youtube. Sounds weird, but true. They cut through all the ramble and straight to the point.
Building Your Leadership Skills is not a tech related course but it helped me not to be a leader or anything, but to build basic interpersonal skills and to be more empathetic and aware, I recommend it to those who like I was had trouble communicating or taking initiative.
Edx is the best. I am taking CS1301 Certificate and it is amazing.
CS50. All the way.
I haven’t taken too many MOOCs though, and I actually haven’t finished CS50 yet, it’s just one of those that you just know
The Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python course on edX.
'Learning how to learn' from Coursera. It's one of the best non-technical courses that I've come across and I believe learnings from that course can be applied to any field.
Engineering Software as a Service, by Armando Fox and David Patterson, Berkeley. They were on Coursera back when I took it, now they're on edX. It's actually an online version (maybe stripped down a bit, but still functional) of their CS169 course.
I learned several things from that course:
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