Udacity

Udacity again takes a different approach to teach coding. A different but similar approach. (confused?)

First I want to get something off my chest about Udacity. 

They offer a variety of courses in various coding related topics, I personally am working my way though the "intro to computer science". Udacity employs free course-ware and paid enrolment. the difference illustrated in the below picture.

So you get in class projects, tutor support etc etc. Udacity charges per course per month, course have a length but as the next picture shows:

Wow, yes that $150 per month. now I understand that the guy teaching is a professor of computer science at Stanford university but I don't want to pay Stanford tuition fees.

I can't fault how the lesson are delivered though. This is what I was talking about earlier that there approach it different but similar. 

The tutor( I forget his name ) (on the "intro to computer science"  course) present his lessons though an interactive white board. Writes with his pen and this translates to the screen your viewing through. Very clever way to do it in fairness, I really like the way he writes a quiz on the board and it allows user interaction. 

Another cool feature is they have an iPad app which allows full access to the site content. Hooray! This is a god send, for this reason alone I will complete as much of the free content as possible on my iPad.