Intro to Natural Language Processing (Coursera)

While I had held out hope that Stanford or even Columbia would offer their NLP courses on Coursera again (I didn't find anything related to the subject on edX), it was not to be.  So I signed up for the University of Michigan's introductory offering.  The Stanford lectures (Jurafsky and Manning) and the Columbia lectures (Collins) are available on YouTube, and these assignments from Cairo University are based on this material as well, so there are plenty of additional resources available in the space.  For now I'm going to mostly concentrate on the Michigan material, just to save a bit of my sanity lol. An online version of the draft 3rd ed of Jurafsky and Martins book, Speech and Language Processing, is also available.

Symbol Catalog

I got tired of hunting all over the place looking for the text representation of various symbols (mostly set and logic symbols), so I figured I would put them all in one easy to find place.  The Greek alphabet I got from Wikipedia, the rest I found at rapidtables.com.  I didn't bother with anything that was already on the keyboard (like < and >), and I didn't do anything that requires an image (that's what LibreOffice Math is for...)

Agile Development - Bertrand Meyer (edX)

Agile - The Good, The Hype, and the Ugly

This six week edX course covers the concepts, principles, practices, myths and misconceptions of Agile project development.  Lectures are done by Bertrand Meyer, and while not required, the recommended text is Meyer's book Agile - The Good, The Hype, and the Ugly.  According to Meyer, the intent of the class is to look at the Agile approach to software development in an objective way, identifying shortcomings and myths of Agile, as well as its strengths and merits.  The graded portion of the class consists of multiple choice quizzes, so all in all it's a very lightweight course.