Hi there! :) About two and a half months ago I found about the new trend in web education, the MOOCs. MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. Basically, there are a few sites where you can take lots of courses from top universities such as MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc. The greatest thing is that it costs absolutely nothing to take the courses. They're FREE! :) I'm sure that these learning systems are starting a new era in higher education since now anyone with access to internet can have access to high quality courses.
So, after browsing through the lots of courses available and seeing which ones were about to begin, I decided to start with a course provided by Rice University on Coursera: Interactive Programming with Python. I already knew how to program in Python before the course but I knew there were still some details to master and some good practices to learn in applications with GUI and animations. Also, is there a better way to learn that than by making classic games like Pong or Asteroids? Guess not! :)
So, I'm going to make a short review on the course so that you can understand how it works and if you should take the course :)
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The course has weekly lectures that you can watch online whenever you want and at your own pace.