Monthly Archives: December 2012

Seq7jan13: Mailed 31 December 12. Mechanical MOOCsters, Happy new year to all!  We are now a week away from the start of the class, which begins January 7th. If you requested assignment to a group of learners, you’ll receive an … Continue reading →

Mechanical MOOCsters, Introducing OpenStudy. It’s no fun to study alone, especially something like coding. It can be frustrating trying to figure out why your code won’t work, and often the answer is a quick little thing that you just overlooked. … Continue reading →

Seq7Jan13: Mailed 23 December 12. Mighty MOOCers, Introducing Codecademy. Learning a coding language can be a little intimidating, especially if you’ve never programmed before. There’s special software to download and learn and you need to understand a bit more about … Continue reading →

Seq7Jan13: Mailed 20 Dec 2012. Good people of the Mechanical MOOC, Introducing MIT OpenCourseWare. For ten years, MIT OpenCourseWare has published MIT’s core academic materials-syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams-freely and openly on the web for anyone to learn from. Learn they … Continue reading →

Seq7Jan13: Mailed December 19, 2012. Members of Mechanical MOOC nation, The Mechanical MOOC course A Gentle Introduction to Python will begin on January 7th. Just weeks from now the gears will begin to turn! Here’s some idea of what to … Continue reading →

Seq7Jan13: Mailed December 18, 2012. Good people of the Mechanical MOOC, Welcome to an experiment in online learning. MOOC knows you’re mighty excited to begin learning Python. We’ll be up and operational shortly. Read on to find out what happens … Continue reading →

Greetings Mechanical MOOCster, Welcome to A Gentle Introduction to Python, the world’s first Mechanical Massive Open Online Course.  This course is created by the Mechanical MOOC out of existing, openly available educational resources across the web, including course materials from … Continue reading →