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Not sure why link a tweet, what you're looking for is [1]. While we're at it, take a look at MIT's other courses at [2]. They are amazing. I wish all schools'd put up their classes online for free.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

[2] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/



> I wish all schools'd put up their classes online for free.

By the way you can thank Hal Abelson* (also known for SCIP, patronage of the FSF, and many other things) for making this happen almost 20 years ago. And “making it happen” was more than just sticking some videos online — which wasn’t even the first thing — but aiming to put all the course material online and encouraging others to use it for their own courses.

It’s particularly striking to me that it was MIT that did this as the institute is notorious for feeling and acting like it considers the educational part of its mission as an annoying distraction.

* Don’t get me wrong — many people were involved. But Hal was IMHO the most instrumental.


>more than just sticking some videos online — which wasn’t even the first thing — but aiming to put all the course material online and encouraging others to use it for their own courses.

Actually putting video (and, for the most part, audio) wasn't even really all that practical when OCW was created. One also suspects that it was an easier sell that OCW was for educators rather than being, in any way, an alternative to taking the courses in-person. OCW was a great innovation though even if it wasn't what a lot of would-be students were looking for. Which ended up being MOOCs that were more directly consumable although still mostly flawed in various ways.


The linked tweet is to a slightly more recent rendition of the course (spring 2020 I think). It doesn't appear to be linked from the ocw.mit.edu web page yet. I don't see RISC-V in the syllabus of your linked 2017 version, but I may have missed it.


I thought I went to the wrong link as well, the link in OP's comment links to a data structures course? A copy-paste mistake perhaps?

The link from the original Twitter post seems to load to the right RISC course from Fall 2020: https://6004.mit.edu/web/fall20/resources/sp20


because it had a brief description, mentions the RISC-V part that I'm interested in, with a direct link to video and slides.




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