brainwagon

One of the greatest things about computing technology is simply how much information is available to anyone who is interested. Technical reports, papers, and most importantly, open source software tools are all available to whomever wants them. This represents a significant democratization of technology. Major universities like MIT are even making entire college level courses available to the public.

It’s nice to see that Google is trying to do the same by establishing the Google Code University. Lots of good information available here.

Google Code University – Google Code

This website provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes.

The Courses section contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas:

• AJAX Programming
• Algorithms
• Distributed Systems
• Web Security
• Languages