Saturday, October 04, 2008 10:42 PM
jhinkle
Intro to Computer Science free online from Stanford
I can remember when I took that class, albeit not at Stanford. It was the fall of 1996 and I had never written a program in C before. I did have some really bad habits from teaching myself BASIC and Pascal though.
Now, you can get all of that knowledge for free on the Internet. I can't image how much farther along I would be if I had had the opportunities then that I have now. The world is an amazing placew.
This course is the largest of the introductory programming courses and is one of the largest courses at Stanford. Topics focus on the introduction to the engineering of computer applications emphasizing modern software engineering principles: object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing.
Stanford School of Engineering