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alexpgpIt occurred to me that I had signed up for (free) courses on udacity.com that had started this past Monday, so after hauling in a chunk of translation income, I went over to see what I could see.
The courses are not mickeymouse, thank goodness, and a single "unit" (corresponding to a week's work) will take a couple of hours to get through. The only part that sort of bugged me was the inability to ask questions in real time, but then there's a whole Internet available to search, so if you know how to ask the questions, you'll get the answers.
A typical unit consists of some number of segments, some of which will pause to ask and allow you to answer a question. Homework is not the way I remember it back in engineering school. As far as background material is concerned, thus far is pretty sparse. This can be interpreted as good news (no $75 textbooks to buy) or not-so-good news (not much else to go on except the video).
My opinion thus far is positive. The price is, naturally, just right. I'm just wondering if I have the "extra" time to take two courses.
We'll see.
The courses are not mickeymouse, thank goodness, and a single "unit" (corresponding to a week's work) will take a couple of hours to get through. The only part that sort of bugged me was the inability to ask questions in real time, but then there's a whole Internet available to search, so if you know how to ask the questions, you'll get the answers.
A typical unit consists of some number of segments, some of which will pause to ask and allow you to answer a question. Homework is not the way I remember it back in engineering school. As far as background material is concerned, thus far is pretty sparse. This can be interpreted as good news (no $75 textbooks to buy) or not-so-good news (not much else to go on except the video).
My opinion thus far is positive. The price is, naturally, just right. I'm just wondering if I have the "extra" time to take two courses.
We'll see.
