Things on MIT Open CourseWare

[jMerliN]

For decades MIT has been dedicated to recording lectures and providing them for free (via creative commons) online and recently doing this through their Open CourseWare initiative. Most of these are available on YouTube but a better listing can be found at the

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I'd suggest for everyone here to watch the Abelson/Sussman lectures for SICP:

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This is an excellent course for new and experienced programmers. It covers LISP (Scheme, you can download the MIT Scheme from GNU, if you want to follow along, it's provided in an Emacs like manner so go through the tutorial to learn how to use the interpreter then you can play with it) and goes through some very good and interesting topics in many aspects of computer science showing off the power of lisp and enlightening your thought process with the capabilities of functional programming and recursive thought processes. Fully understanding this then following up with more advanced LISP material will absolutely change your mental processes as a programmer and make you more competent.

I also recommend for you programmers:

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Enjoy and learn.

 

[Negata]

You seem to always surprise me pants down. I'm already aiming to become fluent with LISP, so this definitely sounds interesting.

 

[.Yoss.]

Where can I learn more about the thing with the big sum symbol on the video and how is it called e.g.

I've seen it somewhere else being used with limits but I never came across it before.

 

[jMerliN]

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[Team Lion]

Open Courseware is great. I also recommend

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, there are similar classes in similar fields to OCW.