{"id":453,"date":"2009-09-25T21:30:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T02:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2009-09-25T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T02:30:30","slug":"ho-le-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Ho. Le. Crap."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known about the <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/OcwWeb\/web\/home\/home\/index.htm\">MIT OpenCourseware<\/a> stuff for a while now, and even had that site bookmarked, to go along with my ambitious plans to work through <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/OcwWeb\/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science\/6-001Spring-2005\/CourseHome\/index.htm\">6.001<\/a> on my own.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t know until tonight was that you can actually download a whole freaking wheelbarrow full of OpenCourseWare stuff for free through iTunes U. Unfortunately, 6.001 isn&#8217;t on that list, but <a href=\"http:\/\/deimos3.apple.com\/WebObjects\/Core.woa\/Browse\/mit.edu.2394447485.02394447490\">6.00<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/deimos3.apple.com\/WebObjects\/Core.woa\/Browse\/mit.edu.1298167185.01298167189\">6.046J<\/a> are. (And 6.00 is taught using Python! Yes! Two, two, two mints in one!) I find it difficult to articulate why I&#8217;m so blown away by this; but yet, I am.<\/p>\n<p>Mike, you might find <a href=\"http:\/\/deimos3.apple.com\/WebObjects\/Core.woa\/Browse\/mit.edu.1299932221.01299932227\">this<\/a> interesting, too (though technically it isn&#8217;t courseware).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known about the MIT OpenCourseware stuff for a while now, and even had that site bookmarked, to go along with my ambitious plans to work through 6.001 on my own. What I didn&#8217;t know until tonight was that you can actually download a whole freaking wheelbarrow full of OpenCourseWare stuff for free through iTunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compsci","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}