Udacity

Udacity has very good, colorful introduction videos to concepts that I've found to be generally hard to break into. I've only skimmed the surface thus far, but I'm very impressed by their introduction Machine learning and Big Data. Incredibly impressed in fact; its some of the best learning tutorials I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot considering my regarded experience with Coursera, New Think Tank, Head First, and CodeAcademy.

Each segment is broken into 60 second chunks on average in an delightful manner by instructors who seem happy to explain things. It invokes the feeling of being guided by your awesome, friendly teacher from the 5th grade all over again. You know, the really fun, effective Mary Poppins-like grade school teacher one who made you feel emotionally swell while intellectually improved at the same time. After each chunk you feel like you've earned a gold star, a cookie, and a short nap to relax. :D

It feels conversational as they challenge you to think about problems as you go in a Dora the Explorer type of manner. By breaking things into chunks, they really make the learning feel like a grade-school conversation.

I'm confident even a child could quickly become a coder if first introduced to via Udacity. Tied in my mind only with the Head First book series. Last but not least, they promise that when the training is complete, cake will be served!

Bonus! :D

~Code Crunch Corner~