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John Resig - Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science
Looks interesting. Suitable for beginners.
Its mainly programming for now but they say it will evolve into more of actual CS.
Uses some more interactive methods which may make for more motivated students and faster learning.
Hacker News thread about it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4382076
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John Resig, the creator of jQuery, the widely used JavaScript library, is joining Salman Khan's (*) Khan Academy, which develops free online courses and videos for various topics.
(*) Not the Indian movie star of the same name :-) This Salman Khan lives and works in the US, though he does have a partly Indian background.
Resig earlier worked for around 4 years for Mozilla. He's going to work full time on leading the open source and JavaScript efforts of the Khan Academy, according to his blog post (linked below).
John Resig: http://ejohn.org/about/
jQuery: http://jquery.com/
Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/
Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/
Here is John Resig's blog post about this news:
http://ejohn.org/blog/next-steps-in-2011/
(*) jQuery users include Google, Dell, Bank of America, Major League Baseball, Digg, NBC, CBS News, Netflix, Technorati, Mozilla, Wordpress, Drupal, according to the jQuery site.
I had blogged recently about Salman Khan and his Khan Academy, here:
Bill Gates' favorite teacher, Sal Khan:
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