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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Math and Science => Topic started by: mapar007 on May 19, 2010, 08:36:36 am

Title: MIT courses online!
Post by: mapar007 on May 19, 2010, 08:36:36 am
I don't know whether any of you know this: the material of some MIT is actually online.

Check:

youtube.com/user/MIT
and
ocw.mit.edu


Right now, I'm at lecture 12 of 18.02: multivariable calculus.
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: rthprog on May 19, 2010, 09:18:43 am
weird, i'm doing that in class right now...
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: Tribal on May 19, 2010, 10:34:11 am
Oh wow, that's interesting  :o
I'll have to check that out when I get home, thanks for the links mapar  ;D
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 19, 2010, 12:04:40 pm
wow nice, that's cool we can learn some stuff when you want there

Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: Quigibo on May 19, 2010, 01:46:31 pm
Yeah youtube is great.  I watched the entire Linear Algebra series in the Standford lectures before I took the class and it was very cool (great for programmers, it even talks about how jpeg compression works)
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: Galandros on May 19, 2010, 03:23:58 pm
Very cool. I knew that there were good courses online but never spent some time finding and watching. That shall be useful next year. ;)
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: calcdude84se on May 19, 2010, 05:29:35 pm
That's nice. Now I know where my next few hours online (not necessarily continuous) will be.
EDIT: Oh, wait, these are 40min lectures. Let's make the next day or so
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: mapar007 on May 21, 2010, 12:27:16 pm
I've done the 2A practice exam, all correct apart from some stupid arithmetic mistakes :P, so I'm moving on to integrals.

Btw, my math teacher hates me now because I reduced her 1-page proof of the product rule of derivatives to three lines (in front of the whole class :P ). (and I'm not allowed to use my 9000x more efficient proof on the exam! the injustice!)
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: ztrumpet on May 21, 2010, 03:27:10 pm
Btw, my math teacher hates me now because I reduced her 1-page proof of the product rule of derivatives to three lines (in front of the whole class :P ). (and I'm not allowed to use my 9000x more efficient proof on the exam! the injustice!)
Lol!  Nice Mapar!  That's awesome. ;D  It's too bad you can't use it though... :D
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 21, 2010, 05:29:17 pm
lol nice x.x
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: calcdude84se on May 21, 2010, 09:50:43 pm
wow. that's an incredible optimization. surprised you can't use it, though.
well, sounds nice anyway
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: mapar007 on May 22, 2010, 02:24:11 am
Well, the reason I can't use it is the fact that I officially don't know how multivariable calculus works, at the exam.

Screw it. I could prove all those 'tricks' as well. Meh.
Title: Re: MIT courses online!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 22, 2010, 05:36:21 pm
I sure hope for school projects they won't restrict people to using specific code/functions x.x. I really hate the lack of freedom in some projects that involves art or creativity in school, sometimes.