370 Free Online Programming & Computer Science Courses You Can Start This Month Five years ago, universities like MIT and Stanford first opened up free online courses to the public. Today, more than 700 schools around the world have created thousands of free online courses. Some of the most popular courses have been those focused on technology — topics like programming, computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence. I’ve compiled this list of over 370 such free online courses that you can start this month. For this, I leveraged Class Central’s database of over 7,000 courses. I’ve sorted all 370 of these courses into the following categories based on their difficulty level: BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced Many of these courses are completely self-paced. Introduction to Computer ScienceHarvard University via edX★★★★★ (59 ratings) | Self Paced An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1)Rice University via Coursera★★★★★ (2919 ratings) | 6th Mar, 2017 Introduction to Web DevelopmentUniversity of California, Davis via Coursera6th Mar, 2017 Think.
Scrimba How we convinced founder-angels to invest in our developer tool startup Product + Networking + Blogging + Luck = Angel Investment Last week closed an angel investment of around $200K USD. Our backers are The Founders Fund II (a Norwegian early stage fund) and a group of successful founders and CEO’s from Zendesk, Unity, TAT, SiteCore, OnlinePizza, and Just Eat, all organized through Nordic Makers. Having two groups of investors which are both highly experienced and well connected has already proven incredibly helpful. How we got the Nordic Makers investment is an interesting story though, as it involves all the following ingredients: doing side projectsbuilding an awesome productblogging on Mediumnetworking on Twittera stroke of luck In this article I’ll explain exactly how it played out. Our product: Scrimba But first you need to know what we’re building. Think of it as coding screencasts where you can pause and play around with the code. The birth of the idea To get to the roots of how the investment happened, we have to rewind back to February 2016.
No budget? No excuse. Here’s a practical guide to UX on the cheap. Here’s a problem I’ve encountered over and over again during my 5 years as a UX designer at Melbourne agencies: no budget. “We would love to do user testing, but we can’t afford it.” It can be hard to sell user experience design. Especially when you’re working with a small or medium-sized business with a modest website budget. People outside our field often seem to think talking to users is a waste of money. The way to view this challenge is not to ignore user testing (or whatever else it might be that you don’t have the budget for). If you show value to your clients through work that had zero budget, well, you’ve just earned yourself a budget. “Design is easy. So, in this series, I’m going to share some tips and tricks I’ve learned along the way to help you get great results with little to no budget. The Design Process In order to set the scene for this, there has to be a process. There are plenty of great processes out there, but context is incredibly important. Why? How to Understand
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