Resources to augment your education.

[Jonathan Simms]

Hi everyone,

A couple links to two educational resources which be of value for those wishing to augment their education.

Computer Science lectures from noteworthy universities such as: MIT, Stanford, Berkley and more as well.

http://lecturefox.com/computerscience/

Free Stanford CS Education Library:

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/

[keivn dodd]

Thanks for posting the links.

[Noah Scales]

Fantastic resources. I just spent a few minutes watching a Berkeley professor talk about Scheme programming, and well, wow! It's time for me to buy an ipod, clearly.

The Binky video from the Stanford library is a hoot, if you like claymation, too. Thanks again.

-noah

[Jonathan Simms]

here are some more computer science resources:

http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html ( an interesting article on scripting languages contra compiled languages)

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/ ( a website on architecture ( extremely technical) )

http://sial.org/howto/shell/ ( Unix shell scripting resources)

http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_s ... uting.html (NVIDIA personal supercomputer...one can dream)

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/hu ... archy.html (Humor, where do you fit in the Unix hierarchy?)

[marcromansky]

... and here is a link to an open MIT course that uses scheme:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-En ... /index.htm

marc



[quote="Noah Scales"]Fantastic resources. I just spent a few minutes watching a Berkeley professor talk about Scheme programming, and well, wow! It's time for me to buy an ipod, clearly.

The Binky video from the Stanford library is a hoot, if you like claymation, too. Thanks again.

-noah[/quote]

[Noah Scales]

Thanks for the great links, guys. MIT's opencourseware is a must for the self-driven learner.

Jonathan, the link on the NVidia personal supercomputer looks really interesting, but with it's massively parallel architecture, what apps can I run on it? Is there a linux version? It looks like not, but I can program it in C, so maybe so, anyway, the $10000 price tag is too steep for me, but of course in a few years it will only cost $2000.

--Noah

[Jonathan Simms]

Noah,

the NVIDIA personal supercomputers can run Windows and/or Linux, however you would most likely want to choose Linux over Windows. In fact a post I posted a few posts back documented a clear preference for Linux in the supercomputing sector. The NVIDIA personal supercomputer is using x86-64 architecture so really it can ran virtually any Linux distro. Your question about what applications it can run would be limited only by your imagination; however considering it is a supercomputer you would most likely run applications that relate to the processing of large amounts of data. Think cluster computing in a box. Linux will most likely run on the NVIDIA personal supercomputer as Linux, currently, is the de facto supercomputing operating system as reported by http://www.top500.org/ the authority on the top 500 supercomputers. And yes it is horribly expensive however it is rather cheap by supercomputing standards.

Jonathan