im-roberto

Ever since I came across the Youtube Edu site I’ve been watching a whole lot of programming videos and have picked up a whole bunch of concepts that I would have never learned on my own. Personally I see this as a very good resource to those who really want to learn the concepts of software engineering as well to those seasoned programmers that just need to refresh and get a quick reference to some concept of some kind.

Beginning Programming in Java :
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=84A56BC7F4A1F852

Just recently I’ve ran across the Educational side of Youtube, more specifically the section that includes various videos from many well known universities. Today I sat down and watched through a few beginner programming courses, from the Stanford University Computer Sciences department, and beginner courses in Electronics Engineering. This is mind blowing and amazing all at once because most of these videos were recorded inside of the classroom of that University and if you can dig deep enough in the Universities website you can probably get a hold of other classroom handouts and other useful materials from that specific class. I won’t even speak of the MIT Open Course website because that alone is a gold mine of education. In any case I’m going to be cancelling all my dates and appointments and hide myself away from a few months while I sit and go through these classes online for free.

http://www.youtube.com/edu
http://ocw.mit.edu/