{"id":2087,"date":"2012-03-05T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2012-03-08T01:42:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T05:42:02","slug":"mit-6-002x-pilot-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"MIT 6.002X pilot course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT&#8217;s beta-test of their online &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mitx.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MITX<\/a>&#8221; program launches today, with the first day of class for their <a href=\"http:\/\/6002x.mitx.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">6.002X &#8220;Circuits and Electronics&#8221; course<\/a>. This is a free course, open to anyone, and MIT is offering a certificate of completion for anyone who finishes the course with good grades.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/6002x.mitx.mit.edu\/static\/handouts\/calendar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">syllabus<\/a> is full of useful topics, from the basics of electrical theory (units of measure, Ohm&#8217;s Law, KVL\/KCL) to more advanced topics like feedback, stability, transients, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The price is certainly right and the content looks interesting and useful. I&#8217;d recommend anyone interested in learning more about the fundamentals of electronics sign up before the course gets too far along. (Although I&#8217;ve been working with electronics for several years now, I&#8217;ve signed up to see if there&#8217;s anything I&#8217;ve missed &#8212; which is quite probable considering that my background is mostly in Digital.)<\/p>\n<p>The first homework is due March 16th, so now is a good time to get started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT&#8217;s (free, online) 6.002X &#8220;Circuits and Electronics&#8221; course launches today! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=2087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,218,210,238,266,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analog","category-currentevents","category-digital","category-electronics","category-fundamentals","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}