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One of the MOOC courses I’m taking on Coursera, Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code, has effectively ended. It was taught by professors Jennifer Campbell and Paul Gries of the University of Toronto. It is by a large margin, the most disappointing of the online courses I’ve taken so far. What follows is a long [...]

So the Programming Languages course is just about over. There’s actually one peer assessment yet to go and it will probably be a few weeks until the course staff tabulates and releases the results, but all of the serious work is over. I wanted to get this post written before I start on two new [...]

I’ve been remiss in updating due to being busy on the Coursera site. I’m currently taking the Programming Languages course from Dan Grossman of the University of Washington. It has a strong focus on functional programming, a paradigm that is completely new to me. It’s pretty amazing to learn about these powerful programming idioms that [...]

The latest Coursera class I’ve been taking is Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python, a long and unwieldy title. It was conducted by professors Joe Warren, Scott Rixner, John Greiner and Stephen Wong of Rice University and ended yesterday so, as usual, I thought I’d write a few words about it. To tell the truth, [...]

I thought I should write a note on this course offered by the Ross Business School of the University of Michigan on the Coursera platform that also ended last week. It’s a ten-week course that I enrolled in out of a slight interest I have in the subject, due to my passing knowledge in accounting [...]

So the Algorithms 1 class by Professors Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne of Princeton on the Coursera platform just ended. I just made my second of three attempts on the final exam, scoring 18.31 / 20.00. I may yet make another attempt next week as everything officially closes only on 30 September 2012. It’s been [...]

I’ve been remiss in writing for this blog because I’ve been busy with the courses I’ve been taking on Coursera.org. Currently I’m taking both Introduction to Finance and Algorithms. The Algorithms class is particularly challenging for me and involves significant work because there’s a programming assignment each week. It’s taught by Robert Sedgewick of Princeton, [...]