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Free Learning Resources for Students – Candid Talks

RAWkWAHL
RAWkWAHL

Open source textbooks!!! They are becoming more popular and hopefully will only keep getting better and better.

  1. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
  2. https://openstax.org/
  3. https://bookboon.com/en/textbooks
hooterscooter
hooterscooter

Spotify Premium, Hulu, and Showtime for $5/month total with a student email address. Works for grad school students too.

Not helpful with productivity, but very helpful for sanity.

Candid
Candid

There’s also a website called kanopy that has a lot of films from smaller productions or independent festivals. It’s free, all you need is a student email. Very little mainstream media on it, but if you like more lowkey watches, it’s a great website.

Sbrimer
Sbrimer

Budgetbytes.com

Cheap meals that are healthier and tastier than ramen and kraft dinner.

NicksThicc
NicksThicc
Paul’s online math notes for calculus. It’s filled with examples and decent, down to earth explanations that don’t confuse the shit outta you
 
Candid
Candid

Professor Leonard on YT is pretty good for calculus too. Posted his entire lecture for each chapter. Recommend watching them at 1.25 or 1.5x speed tho. He’s quite methodical but does a great job with the material.

Karma_Crave
Karma_Crave

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

It is a user friendly search engine and a lot of fun!

And https://www.desmos.com/calculator for graphing

andyb2383
andyb2383

Google Scholar. Great free google search engine that gives credible articles to use in research papers and show you how to properly cite them.

Raetekusu
Raetekusu
Clep testing. It’s a program that allows you to take a single test rather than an entire class for credit. It’s only for some general academic courses, and each college has its guidelines on how they apply to credits. That said taking advantage of them can reduce the time and money required to earn your degree.
 
rcpogi
rcpogi

I always love the opportunity to be able to talk about http://archive.org

 because it is such a wonderful and free resource. For a college student it definitely has so much to offer in terms of educational and entertainment resources. It has millions of free downloads for music, movies, books, software, etc. One very popular example is that it is home to a very large catalog of Grateful Dead recordings

There is also The Internet Arcade, where you can play a lot of classic games along with the Console Living Room which is similar. They have access to tons of old PC games too and you can even play the original Oregon Trail online. There’s a lot more in their software section too.

It also has The WayBack Machine, which has archived more than 458 billion web pages saved so you can go back and see how websites were years ago. For example, here’s reddit on July 25, 2005  a month after it was created.

Candid
Candid
YouTube Educators
  • Mark Felton – historical documetaries and such

  • Michel van Biezen – physics, chemistry, math, engineering

  • Jeff Hanson – engineering

  • lasseviren1 – physics

  • Darryl Morrell – engineering

  • learnfluidmechanics – fluid mechanics, d’uh

  • Simmy Sigma – student who does maths, engineering, geomatics vids

  • Engineer Clearly – chemical engineering, maths

  • Learn MechE – faculty of chemical and biological engineering at UC Boulder

  • Learn ChemE – ditto

Candid
Candid
Apps, Services, etc.
  • What3Words for precise geolocationing – https://what3words.com/

  • Github Student Dev Starter Pack – https://education.github.com/pack

  • Virus total for scanning files before downloading – https://www.virustotal.com/

  • Free documentaries – F https://documentaryheaven.com/

  • Paletton for color generation – http://paletton.com

  • Learn code the hard way – https://learncodethehardway.org/

  • Free techn tutorials – https://www.thinktutorial.com/

  • Free courses and certificates – https://www.webemployed.com/best-free-online-courses-certificates-in-2017/

  • Open courses from Yale – https://oyc.yale.edu/

  • Free guided meditations from UCLA MARC – https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations

  • Send and recieve msgs in morsecode – http://morsecode.me/

  • Psychology textbooks from Noba – https://nobaproject.com/

notvictoriassecrets
notvictoriassecrets

For science/ stem people: khan academy videos. They saved me several times

Rat192
Rat192
Something to help you out when you need to teach yourself math because you have a shit teacher: Symbolabs it’s a calculator website with almost any kind of math you’d need. It will not only give you an answer it will show you how to do it plus it has a practice section to help you master what you need. The premium is like 2 or 3 dollars from what I remember and almost all functions including step by step answers are available for free on desktop browser. Mobile you need to pay for step by step.
 
HeyYallWatchThiss
HeyYallWatchThiss

For math students, Slader. Has the answers to nearly any question in the book, even the even ones. Its all done by volunteers, so some answers are shady. But the vast majority are very helpful. Just make sure to use it as a tool to check answers, not to get out of work. Otherwise tesf time WILL hurt your feelings.

WeirdWally1980
WeirdWally1980

This is really simplistic but podcasts.

If you are mulling over an essay question, a book, an exam topic whatever the best way to really take on a lot of the perspectives is often to listen to the author speak while you are doing your shop, walking to uni whatever.

Interviews often see their ideas get challenged and they will often mention other thinkers who have influenced them in positive or negative ways. It’s a great way to really get a grasp on a topic.

realgirl_fakename
realgirl_fakename

https://b-ok.cc/

has tons of books available for download, I’ve found the majority of my textbooks on the site.

Also, ask for a student discount EVERYWHERE…especially any steaming services you’re using

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