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    Keeping it nerdy

    By Julia | May 14, 2012

    I’ve embraced my nerdiness. In procrastinating for my work I remembered a few sites that I had come across before. www.coursera.org and www.udemy.com which are ways to take classes for free (some aren’t free) online (and in the case of coursera–actually get credit for it).

    I like to learn new things and some of my current interests include brainstorming, problem solving, innovation, programming, computer science, and more. I’ve listened to a few lectures on Udemy (although their user interface is a bit bulky, and makes it hard for me to go through the lectures quickly), and I’ve just started CS101 (Computer Science) offered by Stanford (!). I started about 2.5-3 weeks behind, but I’ve caught up (Yay freshman engineering coding class!). Why I started this class with only a few weeks left in the quarter, I have no idea…

    Oh the things I do to procrastinate … ;p

    Don’t stop learning!

    -J

    Topics: Academics, Advice, Classes, Julia L., Personal | 2 Comments »

    2 Responses to “Keeping it nerdy”

    1. Erik Says:
      May 19th, 2012 at 7:19 pm

      Thank you for those links.

    2. Julia Says:
      May 25th, 2012 at 12:47 pm

      No problem Erik! Thanks for reading ;)

      After I wrote this I actually found a few more that are cool if you’re specifically interested in learning how to code/computer science:

      http://www.codecademy.com/

      http://www.udacity.com/