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Applied Cryptography
Udacity
3 recommenders · 3 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2012–2014 · score 2.6
An applied cryptography course taught by Dan Boneh's collaborator Professor Eric Evans...
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Udacity
3 recommenders · 3 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2012–2014 · score 2.6
An applied cryptography course taught by Dan Boneh's collaborator Professor Eric Evans...
I recommend that you take the Applied Cryptography course from Udacity. It is an excellent, fun, well taught practical course that will cover most of the things you asked about above.
Both coursera and udacity have amazing courses on crypto.
Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs387
Coursera crypto I: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
Coursera crypto II: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2
I took coursera crypto I myself. It was a lot of work, but I learned a ton.
Udacity also has a great course on Crypto: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs387/CourseRev/apr20...
So? I failed to ascertain from the article why this is supposed to be some kind of problem.
Also, as far as I can see, quite a few people do find some reason to stay in, and fight for their grade. I've taken several online courses:
• The Norvig/Thrun AI class at Stanford
• Thrun's robot car class at Udacity
• Evans' applied cryptography class at Udacity
• Jackson and Shoham's game theory class at Coursera
• Ng's machine learning class at Coursera
• Abu-Mostafa's learning from data class at Caltech
At most of these, the forums were full of people who evidently found a reason to stay in. Whenever there was any ambiguity in a question, there would be spirited discussion and vigorous arguments from those who thought that the ambiguity had cost them a point.
There did tend to be more of this on Udacity courses than on Coursera courses. I think it because the Udacity forums are based on a Stack Exchange clone, whereas the Coursera forums are more like traditional forums.
On the other hand, the Caltech learning from data course had some good forum action, and its forums are quite plain and simple, so I don't think forum software explains the difference between Udacity and Coursera. Part of it might be that Abu-Mostafa frequently answers questions on the forum, whereas at Coursera I didn't see the professors on the forums much--only TAs.
If you need some kind of threat looming over you in order to motivate you to stick with a course and no such threat is available, why take that course? Go take some course in a subject that actually interests you enough that learning more about it is sufficient motivation.