General
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Students are free to choose whichever course they like, but some benefits are studying from the same source as others as follows:
- This is the servers' purpose (mentoring each other as our questions will be around the same course, and it will be easier to find an answer); Otherwise, Won't be any different from Coursera's Discussion forum which doesn't help much and takes time for your question to be answered.
- Collected efforts (for picking a specific course objectively) will cover blind spots that each one has, and it will be likely better than each one picking his course & wasting efforts on course comparison.
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Temporary course maintenance Notes:
- Courses are still not peer reviewed; it is another student's suggestion but has not been reviewed by a college professor or senior SWE despite being the best courses in the field.
- This means one might overstudy or understudy a subject (e.g., study too many algorithms).
- Currently, the only solution is to ask a mentor or students about your specific case (where you want to work? Which minor?...).
- This problem is not limited to ACU; unless the community has a peer curriculum maintainer, it is guaranteed that it will have the same problem, and they did not mention it as they were unaware.
- A lot of courses are still not added here but are mentioned (Pinned in each channel, written in OSSU or Omar Shawky's CS-Roadmap) and will soon be merged.
- Resources are better represented on the Website.
- Courses are still not peer reviewed; it is another student's suggestion but has not been reviewed by a college professor or senior SWE despite being the best courses in the field.