{"id":302,"date":"2017-01-01T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/?p=302"},"modified":"2020-12-10T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T22:52:49","slug":"online-learning-udacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/online-learning-udacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Learning: Udacity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Udacity<\/a> is an Awesome Place for Online Learning: In order to review technical and coding skills and to learn new ones, I really like Udacity. Udacity was founded by Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google X and Google\u2019s self driving car project<\/a>. When Thrun\u00a0wanted to have more of an impact he created Udacity \u2014 which is structured slightly different from other online learning sites<\/a>. I\u2019ve taken a number of great classes on Udacity including Hadoop and MapReduce<\/a> (where I downloaded Hadoop to my PC), Intro to the Design of Everyday Things<\/a> (a fantastic class led by Don Norman), and Intro to Computer Science<\/a> (a good introduction to Python). They also do some very interesting online talks<\/a> with thought leaders like Tony Fadell (Nest), Astro Teller (Google X) and Yann LeChun (Facebook\u2019s Director of AI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Udacity is an Awesome Place for Online Learning: In order to review technical and coding skills and to learn new ones, I really like Udacity. Udacity was founded by Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google X and Google\u2019s self driving car project. When Thrun\u00a0wanted to have more of an impact he created Udacity \u2014 which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wCkz-4S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1023,"url":"https:\/\/schlaff.com\/wp\/the-secret-to-googles-self-driving-cars-google-street-view\/","url_meta":{"origin":302,"position":0},"title":"The Secret to Google’s Self Driving Cars — Google Street View","author":"Robert Schlaff","date":"April 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"For decades the US military was trying to create self-driving cars with little success. 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