Anybody who is interested in learning about coding should take a look at this. Who knows, you could be the one to come up with the next Soundcloud or Spotify, or maybe code some apps and VST's

This is the worlds finest introductory computer science course and it's free, so there is nothing to lose.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x

“The Best of the Best.” That’s what Harvard students call CS50, the most popular course on the Harvard campus, and now online at edX. Learn the essentials of basic computer languages and how to think algorithmically. You’ll put your knowledge to use solving real-world problems in fields ranging from gaming to cryptography to finance.

 

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Thanks. Stanford sometimes has similar courses, related to audio engineering.

I myself would like to come up wth the "next" Bandcamp, which would take less than a 15% cut of sales, wouldn't have tiered service/features, would have no promotion of artists, would not have any "social" features (such as for "supporters" and "fans") would have shipping calculators for merchandise/physical media, would prevent downloading of streaming audio (as it can be done presently, via a browser plug-in or download manager by copy/pasting the URL of the page), would keep user-generated metadata tags intact, would permit payments to immediately go through (as they had previously), would be available as a .js plug-in to integrate with one's website, and wouldn't vaunt how much it's paid-out to its users nor announce what's just sold and for how much.

But if I were doing that, I wouldn't have any time nor brain left for making music, now would I?

 

I suppose it depends on the individual, but music, maths and computer science all use the same pathways in the brain, so you already have a head-start Maybe you don't have the urge to become a software billionaire right now, but knowledge of computing is still going to be very important in the future of work, even if you are only telling other people what to do, or having to understand how systems function. The world of machine domination, AI and robots is just around the corner, and it's coming to a town or city near all of us pretty soon.

 

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Also known as Disseminating SkyNet 101.

The tools we use to disseminate are the tool we will use to deconstruct.

In all seriousness though, thank you. I'll take whatever I can get when it comes to free learning.

 

On a related note:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/music-an...-techniques-and-audio-production-spring-2012/

Click other 'OCW Versions' and 'View Course' when you're done with one to keep going.

Old but useful if not learned already. Most of this you can find on the net but Lecture Notes, Assignments and Download Course Materials sometimes contain invaluable info.

Or just fuck the reading and play.

 

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Yeah, I've done quite a few MOOCs myself out of general interest, but I recommended this one due to the importance of the subject and the excellence of the course lecturer. Having taken a CS degree at a fairly good establishment, I can only say this is way better than what I had to sit through

I also noticed that Yale are running Harvard's CS50 via video-link to their on-campus students, which may be a new trend regarding the utilization of elite educators.

 

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It's really great that you can hook up with courses from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc,. no matter where you live and it's free

 

Truly.

With the amount of information just radiating around us it almost makes me want a matrix-like system with yottabyte uplinks to my brain.

Thanks again for the link. Being auto-didactic is awesome but it'll be good to see what going on in the structured world. Plus it's edX.