Meanwhile, Udacity is offering standard CS courses. (Although the two courses that launched today both have a Google-related twist, so I don't know how 'standard' the others will be.)

The CS 373 class they are offering is about learning the basics needed for a self driving car. It is a direct follow up to the AI class, building on what was learned there and actually coding this time around. Considering what a large role probability plays and that it is an opportunity to learn Python I would expect many LWers to show interest.

This course is on how to calculate voltages and currents within electronic circuits. It talks about the different parts that such circuits are made out of, and how they affect the voltages and currents within them. It will not teach you why you'd ever want to calculate a voltage or current, and probably won't bother telling you that, in real life, engineers use computer programs to do these calculations, and the computer programs usually use much more accurate models than the simplified ones that these courses teach.

I've taken a lot of these courses and they were the biggest waste of time ever. (Then again, I consider most of my college education to have been a waste of time only undergone to please my parents, so...)

Also, my father, who is a professor of electrical engineering, agrees that introductory EE courses are some of the most boring and unpleasant courses ever given at any college; supposedly EE gets more interesting later on, much the way mathematics education gets more interesting once you're done memorizing multiplication tables, but I never reached that point.