Each class has a short intro video explaining what else you will be doing. They will teach you agile programming techniques using Ruby on Rails and how to deploy it in the cloud using Github and Heroku. For example, you can take a five week-long class taught by two University of California at Berkeley professors on understanding Software as a Service software engineering.
These online classes cover a broad range of topics outside of computer science, are free and start at specific dates, just like their physical counterparts. The site provides a one-stop listing of classes from multiple different educational efforts, including Coursera, Udacity and others. Earlier this summer the major tech universities have created the site called Class Central. Kahn isn’t the only source of online programming tutorials, of course, and there are a wide variety of classes for adult learners too. “Our hope is that this platform will make Computer Science education more accessible and encourage excitement and increased interest in the field,” he said. So far, they have seen a wide variety of early users on the site. Resig mentioned they plan on expanding the offerings to more language-specific topics if there is interest. Rather than teach a particular programming language, the Kahn exercises are more basic building blocks of coding. The exercises were developed by a team led by John Resig, who created jQuery. You can recognize the Javascript code here. All the code is graphical and can be edited in real time so that the student can instantly see the results of their code, and share with others. The programming skills are broken down into functional operations, including drawing objects on screen, using Boolean operators and if statements (shown here), and interacting with user input.
The idea behind the computer classes was to attract a mix of students of all ages from middle school to adults, and to be both a supplement to an existing class or offer introductions to programming for newbies. The Kahn site is a busy one, with close to 3 million unique visitors monthly taking its classes. This week they have added computer science basics to their repertoire. Kahn has been assembling more than 3000 free self-paced videos on a wide variety of science, math, and other topics. Primary school students – or adults that are complete computer novices - looking to learn programming skills now have a new resource with a sequence of online classes from Kahn Academy.
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