Mathematics 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Self Motivation is Not Optional Taking this kind of approach to educating yourself requires an extremely high degree of self motivation. 1. There are a handful of traditional education institutions that have started to embrace this trend. 2. In a recent feature, the CBS Sunday morning show said that there were approximately 50 million active blogs online. Want to learn how to get in shape? What’s interesting about the blogosphere is that it has created a trend of unconventional education and the opportunity to study any subject you have an interest in. 3. 4. 5. TED: One of the most inspirational educational resources at everybody’s disposal is the TED web site. Interested? Tweet Like
14+ YouTube Playlists To Watch & Learn Computer Programming Quickly Since it never hurts to learn something new, especially a skill set like computer programming in different languages, we will go over some of the best channels that will introduce you to the world of programming. Let’s look at which channels made the cut. thenewboston thenewboston is a truly great channel with an immense collection of programming tutorials. To jump into thenewboston’s tutorials for different computer programming languages, check out: Playlist For Java Tutorials (87 videos) & Playlist For Intermediate Java Tutorials (27 videos) thenewboston also has a number of tutorials for different Adobe Products: There’s a an impressive number of additional topics that thenewboston has covered already. Xoaxdotnet (For C++ Tutorials) Playlist For Beginner C++ Tutorials (51 videos) Here’s the first video of this series: Those are probably the most distinctive ones, but be sure to check out the complete list of videos he has produced, sorted by topic here. phpacademy (For PHP Tutorials)
Free Statistics Courses on Coursera Today, we’re very excited to announce that the Biostatistics Department at Johns Hopkins is offering three new online courses through Coursera. These courses are Data Analysis: Data have never been easier or cheaper to come by. These courses will be offered free of charge through Coursera to anyone interested in signing up. Computing for Data Analysis and Mathematical Biostatistics Bootcamp will start in the fall on September 24.
Khan Academy 10 Thirty-Day Challenges That Nobody Wants to Take A week ago I asked my friends on Facebook about the craziest thirty-day challenges, and I got quite a few interesting ideas. I’m posting them here today, along with my own contributions. These are all challenges that you won’t usually think about, yet some of them can be very powerful. I personally want to try some in the near future. If you want to give them a shot as well, I’d love to hear about your experience, and I’d offer you a spot here to share it if you don’t have a blog. Enough talk for now, below are 10 thirty-day challenges that nobody wants to take: No smoking, coffee or alcohol. What do you think of these challenges?
Learn Java programming tutorial lesson 1 - First Program What is Java? Java is an object-oriented programming language which was developed by Sun Microsystems. Java programs are platform independant which means they can be run on any operating system with any type of processor as long as the Java interpreter is available on that system. What you will need You will need the Java software development kit from Sun's Java site . Writing your first Java program You will need to write your Java programs using a text editor. public class Hello This creates a class called Hello. We must now create the main method which is the section that a program starts. public static void main(String[] args) The word public means that it is accessible by any other classes. static means that it is unique. void is the return value but void means nothing which means there will be no return value. main is the name of the method. You will see that the main method code has been moved over a few spaces from the left. Here is how you print the words Hello World on the screen:
Statistics project ideas for students Here are a few ideas that might make for interesting student projects at all levels (from high-school to graduate school). I’d welcome ideas/suggestions/additions to the list as well. All of these ideas depend on free or scraped data, which means that anyone can work on them. I’ve given a ballpark difficulty for each project to give people some idea. Happy data crunching! Data Collection/Synthesis Creating a webpage that explains conceptual statistical issues like randomization, margin of error, overfitting, cross-validation, concepts in data visualization, sampling. Data Analyses Scrape the LivingSocial/Groupon sites for the daily deals and develop a prediction of how successful the deal will be based on location/price/type of deal. Data visualization Creating an R package that wraps the svgAnnotation package.