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The Simple Logic
Personal blog · thesimplelogic.comsystemscareerprogramming
The Simple Logic is a personal blog at thesimplelogic.com about systems, career and programming. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “You Say You Want An Education? A CS curriculum for Coursera”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2012 post testing whether a four-year computer science curriculum could be built from Coursera courses. Commenters cite it as an early attempt at a MOOC-based CS degree.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- You Say You Want An Education? A CS curriculum for Coursera5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-09-25
What Hacker News says?
In 2012 I wondered if it was possible to build a 4 year CS degree from what Coursera offered at the time: http://www.thesimplelogic.com/2012/09/24/you-say-you-want-an... (spoiler alert: kinda, but not really). I bet you could easily do so now given the wealth of MOOC offerings.
Comment linking /2012/09/24/you-say-you-want-an-education/
on “A computer science study plan”Submitted You Say You Want An Education? A CS curriculum for Coursera as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI wrote up a CS bachelor's curriculum in 2012 using only Coursera courses, and had the same problem with the lack of fundamental math courses ( http://www.thesimplelogic.com/2012/09/24/you-say-you-want-an... ). I do think there will be a full CS curriculum from one of the MOOC providers soon, but I don't think such a curriculum will produce many "graduates" unless it is paired with in-person instruction of some kind.
Comment linking /2012/09/24/you-say-you-want-an-education/
on “Online Learning: A Bachelor's Level Computer Science Program Curriculum”Submitted Lessons learned from hiring mistakes as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAn attempt to design a reasonable computer science curriculum using just Coursera courses, where “reasonable” is a curriculum that roughly mirrors the coursework required for a four-year university computer science degree: http://www.thesimplelogic.com/2012/09/24/you-say-you-want-an...
Comment linking /2012/09/24/you-say-you-want-an-education/
on “Neural Networks for Machine Learning”Submitted You Say You Want An Education? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failure Mode And Effect Analysis For Software Operations as a story · 1 points
HN discussion