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Learn all the basic algorithms to program your own self-driving car in 7 weeks

February 22, 2012

Last month Sebastian Thrun, Stanford professor and Google fellow, and develop of Google’s self-driving car, announced he was leaving Stanford teaching (he will remain as a research fellow) to focus his efforts into reaching a whole world of students by starting his own online teaching company, udacity.

This guy is not one to let the skid marks oxidize under his tires: He has already started a free 7-week course that will give you all the tools to program your own self-driving car.

In 7 weeks time you will learn all the basic algorithms for programming a self-driving car. The prerequisites are… nothing? He says some programming experience would be nice – the coursework is uses Python. Linear algebra also would be nice, but is not necessary. “I just basically hope to see you in class on the 20th,” he concludes the video below.  

It’s not too late to register – I just signed up and the initial videos are online. Go for it!!

Via ieee.org, via Hacker News.