An introductory single-variable calculus course on Coursera, taught by Jim Fowler, covering the core ideas of calculus. Commenters describe it as a self-paced online course with video lectures.

Commenters call it excellent and say the professor made the content interesting and did not dumb it down.

What commenters said (5)

1. Strongly recommendsacutesoftware2018in “Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?”

   I've done a few from coursera and the best MOOC's I have taken are:

   Machine Learning = really good overview of ML, well explained. I did this first but struggled with some of the maths, so took maths refreshers afterwards

   Calculus 1 - I have never had a maths class where the Professors made the content so interesting and with such enthusiasm.

   Human-Computer Interaction - worth doing if you are building websites / apps

2. Strongly recommendsrankam2014in “Ask HN: How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?”

   If you are looking for calculus one resources, Jim Fowler's Calculus One Coursera course is great, IMHO. I watched the videos at 2x speed (I found he speaks very slow, which can be great at times) and was able to complete it in a couple of weeks. The best part was that it didn't seem like he tried to "dumb it down". I would also recommend reading one of the many books others have suggested while taking the course - I've found that I learn much better when I hear topics explained in different ways and from different perspectives. Best of luck!

   https://www.coursera.org/learn/calculus1

3. RecommendsdeepGem2015in “Deep neural network written from scratch in Julia”

   Go for it! Khan academy calculus and algebra courses are awesome. Also, Calculus One on Coursera is really good.

4. Recommendsdominotw2013in “Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers”

   I am not a big fan of 'black screen with voice over' format. There are much much better alternatives for calculus these days, for example calc1 course on coursera is excellent.

5. Mentionsfcorr2013in “Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention”

   I'm taking two Coursera courses at the moment - Calculus One and Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software. I'm very pleased with the material and presentation in both, but I don't think I could handle more than two such (relatively difficult) courses at any one time.

   Codecademy and Udacity allow you to freely dip in and out of lectures and assessments, whereas Coursera courses demand that you deliver quizzes/assignments every week. It's hard to recommend one approach over the other -- with weekly deadlines I find I have more of an incentive to engage in the lectures and course materials, but the added failure conditions can push students to abandon the course.

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