Show HN: Intro to Computer Science Course

makeschool.com

16 points·DesaiAshu··4 comments

Hey folks! I'm Ashu, the founder of Make School. We're building a new university based in San Francisco and just launched a new online course platform to share curriculum from our CS bachelor's degree for free online.

We'd love to get your feedback on the new course platform as well as the course itself. We're aiming to pair high quality videos with in-browser coding exercises for a combo passive / active learning course.

The platform was built on Gatsby in about a month. Personally, this was my first time writing production code in nearly 5 years, so feeling excited to have launched this :)

Besides CS what else will you offer?

I was talking with my brother last night about online course platforms. I was arguing that there's plenty of graduate students or professors even in these times that would have the time and skill to host virtual lectures/classes and teach from a standard textbook if the price was right. This is opposed to platforms like udemy which aren't known for their quality nor academic courses.

But my brother argued that most inclined to make a course would prefer passive income from a prepared course. What are your thoughts on this? Personally I would pay a premium over udemy's already overpriced courses to learn how I would normally at university so long as I could attend live lecture conferences as needed if I needed to ask questions about the reading material or problem sets etc.

I haven’t seen more than the first page but is the course a “learn Python syntax” course or a computer science concepts course? Seems like the content is focused on basic python syntax like every other “coding 101” course but perhaps I’m wrong.

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