Lecture Videos : Berkeley vs MIT

I have finished today the second week's lecture videos in Saas - CS 169.1x by BerkeleyX. I must say my experience has been a rather disappointing one compared to edx's other online college course offered by MITx this time, 6.00x - Introduction to computer science and programming in Python. First of all, the lecture videos were too many for only one week. There were three lectures discussing different topics with several videos each. Too much...

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Saas - Week 1

Ok. In time. Lets do Quiz 1. That was frustrating. I thought I had understood the key concepts of Ruby quite well but I was wrong (see this article). I managed to answer correctly most of the questions but had answered many ones wrong too so I had to study more to understand why I had them wrong. The course's wiki was very helpful. I found useful links about Regular Expressions and other concepts that I encountered for the first time. Also, major...

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I love you Codecademy!

Five days! That's all I have to learn Ruby and do my homework. So I decided to split it, two days to learn Ruby and three to take the quiz 1 and do the homework 1. The good thing about the last one is that I can submit my solution after the due date but it will receive a penalty of 25 %. Not much. In fact I don't really care if I am graded less as long as I understand the concepts and learn. I'm not taking this course for the certificate, I think...

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Starting Saas

I'm not gonna lie to you. A week ago I didn't  even know what "Saas" meens and had never heard the word "Agile" before. Why did I enroll in a Saas class then? Well , I knew one thing, this course was about developing software for the web. That was enough to make me excited! I have only taken (and successfully finished) one programming class before (see this article) and the language it used was python. I know nothing about Ruby which...

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Hello World!

Hello everyone! I have created this blog in order to keep track of my progress in edx as well as to inform you about the quality and the workload of various edx's online courses. I discovered edx about a year ago, a little after the first course, 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics was offered by MITx in March 2012. I loved the idea! Courses offered online for free by the best universities in the world. At that time I was starting to teach myself...

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