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Just curious, but any chance of Khan Academy adding Discrete Mathematics? Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think coursera/udemy have a course either. The only free online course I am aware of for Discrete Mathematics is MIT OCW 6.042J.

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I don't think we have any immediate plans for Discrete math - we are still filling in gaps in our K-12 curriculum. We'll see, maybe someday!

For what it's worth I would absolutely love a discrete math course from Khan academy.

It seems like Khan Academy initially covered whatever Sal Khan found interesting, so there is Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations. Now that it's become more focused, a side effect is that there's a bigger concentration on grade school-level stuff.

It is a pity though. It would have been great to see KA covering Theoretical CS as well as Discrete Math.

Descrete Math is so important to understand the analysis of the algorithms (esp. a new problem). However, I did not find any useful course except the one you mentioned.

Berkley's Discrete Math class is solid. Lectures on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-XXv-cvA_iDTidF2dnVq_...

This looks latest (fall 2014). Thanks :) Will try it out, I was looking for descrete mathematics course almost 2 years back and could find only MIT one. Good to see some options now.

MIT also has a pretty solid discrete math course on OCW (I admit, I only watched the lectures, but they were a good refresher for me going into interviews).

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

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