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@design_RG

It's a free course on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking

It looks like the next start date is June 22nd. Once you enroll though, you should have access to all the content. The "due" dates are just if you'd like to follow along with the rest of the class.

Again, it might be too high level for a lot of people, but for those of us who struggle with math (i.e., me), it seems like a good transition to START the transition to higher levels of math (which still provokes a bit of anxiety, if I'm being honest). The PDFs they recommend reading prior to the first lesson are provided, and started untangling the gooblygook that is (apparently) set theory symbolism and stuff.

I feel like those 2 documents alone can help take some of the math symbolism anxiety away and turn it into something that can be broken down and understood.

@freemo

Thought you might be interested - I just finished the first two videos of the Stanford University course Introduction to Mathematical Thinking by Keith Devlin.

It's surprisingly interesting from my non-math perspective. The course tries to bridge the gap between K-12 rote math and "real world" math and calculations.

I'm not far into the course yet, but so far, I'm finding it interesting.... which means it's likely WAAAY too basic for you, but I am coming from a place where I use to have a disdain for math.

@freemo

...I don't have nearly enough 5.56

@freemo

I feel this server is a valuable resource. Where can I learn more about how to support it?

@freemo

I'm all about the Steampunk Techno Electronic Music (STEM)! Glad to be among other fans of this genre!

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@freemo

Well that is spiffy! I'll have to explore what some of these are! Is discourse a blogging platform?

@freemo
Thankfully that was 5 years ago. They found some really cool critters.

@freemo
It's the part you don't smoke, amirite?! 🤣

I feel bad for St. Paul firefighters. They don't deserve what they have to deal with.

@freemo I think it would be helpful to new programmers, I'm obviously not at the point where I'm writing code yet, but the things I could see myself struggling with is how to organize code for larger projects so it's more easily maintainable.

@freemo ...I could use demonstrations of underrated computer science concepts - not sure if video is the best platform, but throwing it out there :)