Looks like you're having a great time with the sci-fi course! Don't fret about the grades, it's just the luck of the draw. Also, I have an impression that people were more nitpicky in the beginning and became more generous towards the end, so there's still time.
Funny that my reading habits are exactly opposite - I actually have a few of these books in paper versions, but I've reread all of them on-screen, it feels so much more convenient.
The satanic messages course sounds intriguing, but the link leads to the content-less page, probably it requires to register on the edx site before seeing anything of value, and I'm too lazy. I'm currently doing the logics course at Coursera (the 1st unit is more-or-less like Ram Neta's stuff from the Think Again course, but more complicated, and the presentation is a lot more exciting) and 2 programming courses at Udacity (they're self-paced) but that's it, for the time being. I have this feeling that I mostly consume, and it's time to switch to creating... not that talking about it counts toward doing.
I've no idea if the current freedom of the Internet will last; it may fall the victim to the politics even more likely than the economics. Maybe we should try to learn as much as possible while it's accessible...
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Date: 2014-03-16 08:19 pm (UTC)Funny that my reading habits are exactly opposite - I actually have a few of these books in paper versions, but I've reread all of them on-screen, it feels so much more convenient.
The satanic messages course sounds intriguing, but the link leads to the content-less page, probably it requires to register on the edx site before seeing anything of value, and I'm too lazy. I'm currently doing the logics course at Coursera (the 1st unit is more-or-less like Ram Neta's stuff from the Think Again course, but more complicated, and the presentation is a lot more exciting) and 2 programming courses at Udacity (they're self-paced) but that's it, for the time being. I have this feeling that I mostly consume, and it's time to switch to creating... not that talking about it counts toward doing.
I've no idea if the current freedom of the Internet will last; it may fall the victim to the politics even more likely than the economics. Maybe we should try to learn as much as possible while it's accessible...