Using a MOOC to structure our reading

[ashleygwilliams]

@stubbornella had suggested we might look at one or two coursera classes to structure our reading since the book is more "resource like".

here's her note:

I have that book (in SF unfortunately). It is more like an encyclopedia of algorithms than a >course... We could try to read it, or maybe follow one of these two courses together and >use that book as a reference for talking about the problems?

https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI https://www.coursera.org/course/algo

That might give us more structure w out having to design a course for ourselves. What do >you think? We could post our results in github so we could comment on each other's >solutions & help each other.

[llkats]

There are also the MIT Open Courseware classes that use CLRS for their main text, which we could use as a more self-directed approach that's not tied to any specific time table.

Fall 2005 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-046j-introduction-to-algorithms-sma-5503-fall-2005/

Spring 2008 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-spring-2008/

Fall 2011 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-fall-2011/

2005's reading list looks pretty much like the first 2/3rds of the textbook in order, while 2008's seems to have grouped some chapters a little more thematically. Are people feeling like they just want to plow through the chapters in order? I've just started the looking at the first couple chapters tonight. :)