Stanford Offers Free CS, Robotics Instruction Via Interwires
September 23rd, 2008
You may read Botropolis day after day, wishing only for the ability to program your own robot. Unfortunately, your job as a robotics website blogger doesn’t produce enough income for you to attend computer science classes at the local university. Well fear no more, Stanford University is going to offer 10 free courses in cs, electrical engineering, artificial intelligence and robotics. You already spend your entire waking life online, why not learn robotics programming while you’re at it?
Offered under the school’s Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) program, the free courses are very similar to actual classes taught at Stanford. Each course has downloadable video lectures, assignments, handouts, and exams. Some differences between the free courses and the regular courses are that the SEE program classes won’t earn you Stanford credit, and you won’t be able to communicate with Stanford instructors. However, you will be able to share information and ideas with other SEE students.
The first three courses are the Introduction to Computer Science sequence, and the other classes offer more in-depth instruction in artificial intelligence and linear systems and optimization. The material is being presented under a Creative Commons license so to “[encourage] educators and learners around the world to incorporate the video courses and materials into their educational endeavors and to form virtual communities around the classes.” See more info at the program’s page: Stanford Engineering Everywhere.
