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Scott Young: ScottHYoung.com
- MIT Challenge: Spend $2k to complete a 4 year computer science degree in 1 year (savings $298k)
- Testing what matters, the paper from MIT or the skills?
- It seems that employers were interested in people who take the initiative/self starters (the general public did not think this would be case)
- MIT students criticized heavily, likely pretty annoyed that they’re spending so much money and played by the rules
- You do lose on the other classes, networking, friends, etc. – but the skills themselves can be done for much less ($2k) and much faster (1 year vs. 4)
- Completed in 2012
- Online Education Resources/MOOCs as of 215:
- Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, Lynda (business/software learning, recently acquired by LInkedIn), CodeAcademy (learn to code with interactive courses)
- Many offer 3rd party grading, mini-certifications
- Self learning is much easier than it once was
- Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, Lynda (business/software learning, recently acquired by LInkedIn), CodeAcademy (learn to code with interactive courses)
- Learning Languages
- Scott’s emersion approach: A Year Without English
- Pick a country, Speak no English
- Start-off with some basic prep (20 hours or so), but mostly using Google Translate
- Language Learning Tip: Use the infinitive version of a verb as you are just beginning in Spanish (won’t be right, but people will get the point)
- Duolingo, Anki, Memrise: Pretty good, but can be a distraction by making learning languages more of an academic/memorization technique and not a social challenge (becoming comfortable speaking to someone in a language you are not confident in and they are, dealing with the confusion, embarrassment, etc.)
- Scott’s emersion approach: A Year Without English
- Monetizing a blog:
- First build something that is valuable/interesting then monetize
- John focusing on sell some items through the site (e.g. courses on learning approaches)
- It took 5 years to make some money and 3 more to make a good living
- If you have something that is interesting, you can making a living off of it
- It takes time to build an audience, links, google caching, etc.