CS 373: Programming a Robotic Car, a free, on-line, Stanford course

[Peter Nau]

http://www.udacity.com/cs#373 

For you who are interested in autonomous, mobile robots, the course might be right down your alley.

The course is free (unless you want credit at Stanford), and it starts tomorrow, 20 Feb.  So sign up now if you're at all interested: there are no obligations.  (Sorry for the short notice!)

While the course will be challenging, the teachers actually want you to learn and succeed, not get "weeded out".

Even if there are reasons you can't keep up or complete the course, there are advantages to signing up, since signing up makes some extra resources available to you.  (In any case, the lectures and many resources will remain online after the course completes.)

Python is the programming language.  For you who know any of the usual languages, e.g., C, C++ or Java, Python is easy to learn, and, once you get the hang of it, there is a big payoff: increased productivity.

If anyone taking the course would like study partners, and if the course resources don't intrinsically support study collaboration (I don't know about that yet.), then please let me know, and maybe we can organize something beneficial.  In person or telephone conferences can be very helpful.

Here are some other relevant links:

http://www.udacity.com

http://www.class-central.com/

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Sebastian Thrun, the primary teacher, talks about his education revelation:

http://new.livestream.com/channels/556/videos/112950

Cheers,

~Peter

[Peter Nau]

FYI, someone wrote:

"... registration in the course would be allowed until February 28, before the first homework is due. So I'm guessing Homework #1 will be due at 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, February 29."

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Peter Nau <behe...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.udacity.com/cs#373 

For you who are interested in autonomous, mobile robots, the course might be right down your alley.

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