Road to CS – First set of exams!

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Here we are. I’ve started this project months ago more for fun than for work, and now the spring season of the freshman year starts the next week, oh good jesus, time really flies. (to be honest, only 2 months has passed lol).

During the first season of exams i will take several courses from edx, coursera, udacity and also from the world, wide web (openyale lol).
the exams i’ll take are:

    Calculus 1 + precalculus (cause i’m a n00b)
    Physics fundamental (a brief course at udacity for the introduction of physics and then the real physics course from yale)
    Programming fundamental using python (from MITx, that is alreaady started, (damn))
    HTML5 game development (a nice course for starting game development and learn js and html/css)

The precalculus and the calculus courses are on coursera (the links will arrive soon).

I will take also a course of java programming, done by MIT on edx, but it starts in november/december, so i don’t really know how to do. Maybe the coming of december will helps me (Ned Stark approved ).

I’ve got also a problem, after the ending of programming fundamental i would like to take a deeper course in python programming. I dont’ really know if it’s better taking the Introduction to data science course from MIT (which is specific for data science and simulation, and i dont really need that now (later will be one of the most important courses i will take, surely)), or the Computer principle course (divided in 2 sets) done by Rice on coursesa. I will probably do the rice one on the next season, but only time will know (aka myself). Stay tuned! 🙂

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