Crypto class starts today on cousera.org

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How is David Evan? Is he an interesting lecturer?

Dave is one of the co-founders of Udacity and I believe to be a very engaging lecturer. Udacity and coursera have a very different approach to education. Coursera is more like a traditional university with start and end dates for courses and a weekly schedule of content. Udacity is open 24/7 with short 5 minute snippets with quizzes in between and homework assignments at the end of each section.

I'd watch Peter Norvig's ted lecture, which was the inspiration for Udacity to get a better idea:

http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_norvig_the_100_000_student_classroom.html

For Boneh's course, it is nearly identical to his for credit class for Stanford's SCPD master's program: http://scpd.stanford.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=11792. Probably in the next five or six, years it will be offered for full college credit.

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This is great! joining right away!

deadweasel

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Quote from: Bobs Yerunkle on June 17, 2013, 08:58:50 AM

If you feel like a structured type learning approach covering basics and more.
https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

I have no idea if it going to be any good but I am hopeful.

Thanks! Now if I could only buy some time with BTC...

Kake

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Quote from: charleshoskinson on June 19, 2013, 05:16:26 AM

I'm friends with Dan Boneh. I would highly recommend his course and the second course he is also offering in a few weeks. Dan is an expert on fully homomorphic encryption and one of his grad students actually created the first fully functional system:

https://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/craig-thesis.pdf

In my opinion, Dan is one of the top five cryptologists in the world right now and it is really amazing that he committed to teach these courses. I'd also recommend David Evan's class on Udacity:

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs387

How is David Evan? Is he an interesting lecturer?

charleshoskinson

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I'm friends with Dan Boneh. I would highly recommend his course and the second course he is also offering in a few weeks. Dan is an expert on fully homomorphic encryption and one of his grad students actually created the first fully functional system:

https://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/craig-thesis.pdf

In my opinion, Dan is one of the top five cryptologists in the world right now and it is really amazing that he committed to teach these courses. I'd also recommend David Evan's class on Udacity:

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs387

agnostic98

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thanks for this, just watched the first few videos so far and seem like a solid course!

drrussellshane

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I remember hearing about this a while ago.

I might just have to check it out this time!

Thanks!

drwho88888

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Doing the cryptography one now. Thanks for the up on this. Fascinating stuff. As someone else has said, dry but really good.

Insu Dra

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Also started yesterday: Startup Engineering, It will cover all aspects of doing a basics web start-up.
https://www.coursera.org/course/startup

Little did I know, the first 7 video's have bitcoin all over them ... Goal of class build a bitcoin crowd funding project. Part of your results is based on how meany bitcoins you raised. ... Tongue

junglist.massive

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amazing!
I'm in!

Bobs Yerunkle

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Quote from: ToaDy on June 17, 2013, 01:01:54 PM

Hello, this sounds really interesting. Is the subscription 100% free? Never heard of these online classes before.
thank you,

https://www.coursera.org/about

"...Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free..."

ToaDy

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Hello, this sounds really interesting. Is the subscription 100% free? Never heard of these online classes before.
thank you,

luv2drnkbr

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It's awesome. I'm signed up for the second class, but I never get into it. I think it's because I incompleted the first class. As soon as I could download all the videos and homeworks I just grabbed everything and never went back. :-( Guess I need to re-take it.

It's definitely dry, but it's still REALLY good. And you get a very solid foundation on crypto, with specific programming implementations.

Bobs Yerunkle

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If you feel like a structured type learning approach covering basics and more.
https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

I have no idea if it going to be any good but I am hopeful.

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