IsraelX is offering free online course on Liberating Programming: System Development for Everyone. This MOOC will help almost anyone understand state-of-the-art programs.
It’s designed to liberate programming fundamentals and make them accessible to all; offering a review of programming languages as well as new visual and intuitive approaches. This course will start on December 20, 2017.
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( votes)Course At A Glance
Length: 8 weeks
Effort: 2-3 hours pw
Subject: Computer Science
Institution: IsraelX and edx
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes, Add a Verified Certificate for $49
Session: Course Starts on December 20, 2017
Providers’ Details
IsraelX is a national consortium of higher education institutions in Israel, led by the Council for Higher Education and the Ministry for Social Equality
About This Course
The world around us is immersed in technology. This technology is ultimately driven by programming and is governed by its laws. As a result, high-level knowledge of means for programming ? past, present, and most importantly, future ? has become of crucial interest to many.
This course is designed to teach almost anyone about the essence of programming. You’ll learn about diverse types of existing programming paradigms, about how programming has evolved over the years, and, significantly, about what lies ahead in the future.
In the main part of the course, we will present some visual, diagrammatic programming languages for reactive systems, as well as some of the more recent, playful, and intuitive approaches to programming.
Why Take This Course?
This course is designed to teach almost anyone about the essence of programming. You’ll learn about diverse types of existing programming paradigms, about how programming has evolved over the years, and, significantly, about what lies ahead in the future.
Learning Outcomes
- An overview of existing programming approaches
- Introductory understanding of two visual and natural programming languages for reactive systems
- How newer forms of programming have evolved into more playful and intuitive approaches to coding
Instructors
David Harel
Prof. David Harel has been on the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science since 1980, serving in the past as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Michal Gordon
Michal Gordon is senior faculty member at the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel, working on intelligent interfaces for programming.
Requirements
None; introduction to computer science is a plus.
How To Join This Course
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