It depends the discipline, I guess.. I turned to MIT courses from time to time when the ones (EE, Control Systems) at my University were too theoretical and I needed something more accessible (I wasn't the brightest).
Sure, we'd design RST controllers, on pages of paper, but I wanted to actually apply that knowledge.
I remember discovering OCW and the first image they showed was magnetic levitation and they had a lab where they had fun. In our lab, we'd crunch the numbers with pen and paper, then see how good our kung-fu was looking at how the system behaved on MATLAB.
Damn you, people with gear in their labs touching things and having fun!
Fun fact: our programming exams were with pen and paper where you'd write programs (x86-PIC ASM, C, Pascal) (you'd better debug it on another sheet before you turned it in).
Sure, we'd design RST controllers, on pages of paper, but I wanted to actually apply that knowledge.
I remember discovering OCW and the first image they showed was magnetic levitation and they had a lab where they had fun. In our lab, we'd crunch the numbers with pen and paper, then see how good our kung-fu was looking at how the system behaved on MATLAB.
Damn you, people with gear in their labs touching things and having fun!
Fun fact: our programming exams were with pen and paper where you'd write programs (x86-PIC ASM, C, Pascal) (you'd better debug it on another sheet before you turned it in).