Ask HN: Where do you go to Learn Online?

[fvryan]

Wikipedia is great for research and I often go to YouTube for video tutorials. But where do you all go if you want to go more in depth and learn a new skill or subject?

[tilt]

What's the topic? Here are some resources

UC Berkeley Webcast/Courses http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php

MIT's OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Mozilla's School of Webcraft http://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/

Google Code University http://code.google.com/edu/courses.html

Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/

Ontwik http://ontwik.com/

Code School http://www.codeschool.com/

There are also a lot of startups focusing on tutoring&co, like

http://www.skillshare.com/

http://edufire.com/

http://www.tutorspree.com/

http://www.udemy.com/

[pvarangot → tilt]

India has a "Technology Enhanced Learning Program" called NPTEL. It includes video lectures for courses on many kind of engineering programmes, and everything is en English.

- http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/

Not too long ago I wanted to get a little deeper on analog electronics and found their classes where more useful for me than the ones in OpenCourseWare. MIT's program I found better for Computer Science.

[fvryan → tilt]

awesome, thanks tilt! Just curious where fellow hackers go to learn across the spectrum :)

[tilt → fvryan]

Far from being hacker myself, let's hear more from some serious ones

[JayNeely]

Definitely depends on the topic. Typically I search for a forum dedicated to the subject. The forum's search will be great for finding generations of people asking how to do the same things you're now wondering about. And forums provide a living knowledge base rather than a static one.

[fvryan → JayNeely]

Ya I def like this idea, but hate when I stumble on an old/dead topic with contributors long gone. So follow on questions can take forever

[jeggers5]

I generally just use Google whenever I want anything. That way I just get pointed in the direction of the best resources.

@tilt has the best list, though. Update your question to be more specific please so we can answer better :)

[fvryan → jeggers5]

Ya I typically use Google as well to find tutorials. But how do you know you are finding the best resources on Google?

[jeggers5 → fvryan]

I don't! That's the problem, but I would generally ask on Twitter if I want something that's good quality, or one of the many Stack Exchange Sites.

[mtimur]

If you are willing to pay, then http://www.pluralsight-training.net/ is the great choice for learning Microsoft technologies.

[nishantpant]

http://safaribooksonline.com rocks. Thousands of books in pdf format for you to read. I am lucky that my company provides free annual access to it though.

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[salman89]

My school has license agreements with lynda.com.. Pretty good in depth video tutorials