Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS?

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 9, 2014 @07:06AM from the yes-but-how dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am a middle school math teacher and I also run a programming club. I recent completed my M.Ed in math education and was inspired to try to do the new GT online MS in Computer Science in a couple of years. I have some background in programming: two intro to comp sci courses, Java, C++, Python, the main scripting languages, and a bunch of math background. I also read through this great article on getting these pre-requisites completed through Coursera but unfortunately you need to wait for courses to enroll. I would like to just learn these on my own time, no credit necessary. Suggestions?"

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MIT by ACS+Solver · 2014-03-09 07:13 · Score: 4, Informative

You can learn basically the entire CS curriculum of MIT. This guy did it in 12 months, which is quite extreme, but it shows that the material is all there, and you can of course go through it (or parts of it) at your own pace.