Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses

DeviceGuru writes "Stanford University will soon begin offering a series of 10 free, online computer science and electrical engineering courses. Initial courses will provide an introduction to computer science and an introduction to field of robotics, among other topics. The courses, offered under the auspices of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE), are nearly identical to standard courses offered to registered Stanford students and will comprise downloadable video lectures, handouts, assignments, exams, and transcripts. And get this: all the courses' materials are being released under the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license."

Comments

Re:What a load of BS (CS)

[Skapare]

You have to look in-house for proprietary crap. That's what proprietary means. Have fun.

Re:Viewing a lecture requires installing Silverlig

[DiegoBravo]

Yes, Firefox+Linux is not supported.

From the Silverlight installation page:

Compatible Operating Systems and Browsers

Operating System        WinIE7  WinIE6     FF 1.5  FF 2   Safari
Windows Vista           Yes      -      Yes     Yes      -
Windows XP SP2          Yes     Yes     Yes     Yes      -
Windows 2000              -     Yes     No      No       -
Win Server 2003 (ex IA-64)Yes   Yes     Yes     Yes      -
Mac OS 10.4.8 (PowerPC)   -     -       Yes    Yes      Yes
Mac OS 10.4.8 (Intel-based)-    -       Yes    Yes    Yes

Re:Hmm....

[mrchaotica]

It means transcripts of the lecture (as in, where somebody wrote down what the professor said), not enrollment transcripts!