Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman to teach Web App Eng-Building a Blog at Udacity

I think we are witnessing the end of the traditional educational business model in real time. Every week it seems new courses are coming out. Yesterday for example MIT released a basic electronics course, https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/, complete with labs, homework, and two exams. It's free. They are planning on releasing more. At some point, the online offerings will become to traditional colleges as wikipedia is to traditional encyclopedias.

I'm surprised spez has time for this. Isn't he busy with Hipmunk?

On android my browser refuses to go to the link without logging in and the G+ app says it can't handle the link (what is G+ for then?). This along with YouTube and sometimes Google groups demanding logging in is getting too much for me. I've already switched to Duck Duck Go for search. Now I'm in the market for a new email provider and docs are going to cloud storage.

I also had a problem with this URL being inaccessible from my phone without logging into Google.

The course they are talking about is this one : http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253 .

huh, how different will this be from berkeley's saas-class on Coursera? I'm taking it right now and am so far finding it decent for non-web programmers.

I hope he doesn't teach it using Tornado! :)

I sincerely hope he doesn't tell them to stuff pickled Python objects into Postgres like they did with Reddit.

I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm legitimately concerned.