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Coursera courses "login page" ready. Example from Model-Thinking's welcome page, from PGM is the same and also from NLP, CS101, SAAS, HCI, ML, Game Theory, Cryptography, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Security, Information Theory, Anatomy and Making Green Buildings
Next step to be done: Courseara account creation pageIs not ready yet and without it you CAN NOT LOGIN! (You can try at your own responsibility, BUT DON'T COMPLAIN!) @jimgb: I'd say this post is a little bit confusing for people. The login page was reachable for some days now, but since there are no accounts yet, it's not really 'ready'.
(15 Feb '12, 09:05)
rhasarub
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You are right @rhasarub, I didn't realize that when opening it, hope now is less "ambiguous"
(15 Feb '12, 11:32)
jimgb ♦
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This is it - the Minimum Viable Product. You try to log in and cannot. So you complain and they build an account creation page. Soon you'll be able to create an account and log in. That will send you to a blank page. So you'll complain, "Where are the classes?". Oh, you wanted classes? Lather, rinse, repeat... It's minimum, but viable? I'd call it TDD from hell.
http://radoff.com/blog/2010/05/04/minimum-viable-product-rant/
@lacucharita - "I'd call it TDD from hell."
It's not really TDD, more like ACDD (Annoyed Customer Driven Design). I liked the rant you linked to.
I'm getting a very bad feeling about these classes.
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Why? You're messing around with a site that hasn't officially been announced or released yet. Developers have several technical terms for people who criticise work that hasn't been completed.
How can you argue that it has not been anounced when it is already more than three weeks behind schedule? I figured on getting ready for midterms about now. If they start today I don't know if I'll be able to fit the fianl into my schedule.
When did they give out the links to the pages in the original question? I haven't seen them in an email, they're not linked to from the original pages (pgm-class etc), so where did they come from?
THe fact that they have not published anything official in the last month is part of why I have a very bad feeling. I do not think I will be able to take the classes even if they do start eventualy.
I hate vaporware.
It's not vaporware if you've already seen the product. ML and DB have already happened.
There are emails that have been received by some members about courses, one of which is slated to start on Monday and another has released some videos ahead of release.
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I probably should have stuck some smileys in my original comment. It was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek and a little sarcastic (but not very). I sympathize with their troubles getting the courses ready and with everyone here's anxiety about getting started.
As new courses and ideas start to pile up, it's nice to have a place like this to come and read the course emails I haven't received yet ;-)
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In reference to my previous comment - smileys and emoticons are insufficient. Where is the graphic designer who can come up with the Sarcastometer? The Tongue-in-Cheekometer? I want to be able to calibrate the facial expression I had when I wrote the post.
Of course there's always using the webcam to create a small animated video, I guess. ;-)
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Here is something "interesting": in Cryptography there are 2 welcome pages: one from stanford.campus-class.org and the other from www.coursera.org they are not exactly the same ... well, now that I check, it seems that all of them have the 2 possibilities. 1
I guess in the end all class will be hosted on campus-class.org and the ...-class.org domains will just redirect there. Otherwise they would have to register a domain for each new class, which would get ugly, soon, especially if you have people snatching away similar domains and you have subdomains like jan2012.ml-class.org for classes starting not earlier than february.
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