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Ask HN: Which courses/classes are you excited about in 2025?

• dvt 2y ago
  Taking a 3-month Salsa dance class starting early January. I've never been good at dance so I'm low key kind of excited. Might meet someone, too, you never know :)
  • viewtransform 2y ago
    Walked into a drop-in salsa dance class at the Berkeley YWCA two decades ago. Got hooked from the first class and it was a gateway drug to swing and argentine tango. Hope you have a good time.
    • SanjayMehta 2y ago
      “Fight attendants” made me chortle.
      • viewtransform 2y ago
        LOL. I edited that sentence out.
        • SanjayMehta 2y ago
          Spoilsport!
  • emmanueloga_ 2y ago
    Just curious, is this with some particular dance company or studio/instructor?
• qrush 2y ago
  Still trying to get a food co-op off the ground here in Boston, and I am looking forward to the annual virtual conference of live videos that are basically the latest-in-industry news and updates about patterns and more others are doing from the Food Co-op Initiative: https://www.youtube.com/user/foodcoopinitiative https://www.youtube.com/user/foodcoopinitiative
• doctorpangloss 2y ago
  MathAcademy was good but I just ran out of time every day to do it, and it was way too remedial for me. I was using it to learn advanced math relevant for my work, but it was taking me over stuff for standardized testing for high schoolers. The creator is active here and I sincerely think it’s a good product, but not right for me.
  • Emphere 2y ago
    +1. I was excited for it and it sounded nice in theory but in practice it was just too much of a slog for me. I picked it up because I have a non-traditional math background and while I more or less know calc + LA, I do lack fluency with the concepts. Perhaps I am wrong, but at my level I feel that I don't need to go through 10 trivial variations of the same theme and many foundational concepts could be massively condensed. I am instead progressing much faster just picking up a textbook and referring back to precalculus books to fill in holes where needed.
• DamnYuppie 2y ago
  I am finally going to learn to play the Piano. I have tried in the past and found I really enjoy the practicing yet I would let life get in the way and fall off.
  • carlinm 2y ago
    Are you planning to use something online to learn? If so, what?
    • DamnYuppie 2y ago
      I use my iPad and a few of the apps. It is quite fun actually, you can stop, restart parts you don't like, put it into loops, speed up sections or slow them down.
  • lewisleclerc 2y ago
    That's great. Where are you learning it from?
    • DamnYuppie 2y ago
      Previously I used my iPad with an app on it so was going to do the same thing again.
  • DanielVZ 2y ago
    Same here! I started by myself going through Bartok’s mikrokosmos which has helped me a ton with reading but after getting my digital piano fixed in January (only the left half makes any sound) I’m starting with my own lessons.
• Shosty123 2y ago
  https://www.mathacademy.com/ https://www.mathacademy.com/ for learning math through spaced repetition. https://www.smart-biology.com/ https://www.smart-biology.com/ for learning biology visually. Also, the 3D graphics and compiler courses on pikuma
• moribvndvs 2y ago
  A Japanese language course at the community college after getting sort of burned out on apps and Anki decks. Hoping I can make friends with some native speakers, or at least other students interested in practice.
  • sshine 2y ago
    A course made a big difference for me after solo’ing through the first part of covid.
• codetrotter 2y ago
  In 2025 I want to: - Learn to scratch like Hip-Hop DJs. - Make one techno track that could pass off as something that a local DJ in some random city would play and that the people in that room would enjoy. I have previously taken in-person piano lessons, and I've spent quite a bit of time in Ableton and with MPC X, and with a few different keyboards and a drum machine. I have a mid-range DJ controller at home, the Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3. Music is a hobby for me, and I cannot dedicate anywhere near full time to it in 2025. But if I can do these two things, then 2025 would be a great year in terms of my music hobby.
• cebert 2y ago
  I’ve started learning piano using the Simply app paired with a keyboard. It’s been surprisingly fun and a nice mental break for me.
• daft_pink 2y ago
  I really want to take the how to solve it with code jeremy howard course, but it was already full by the time that I heard about it. So I probably shouldn’t be mentioning it on this thread. LOL https://solveit.fast.ai https://solveit.fast.ai
  • edanm 2y ago
    Same here. And I heard about it like a day after they talked about it... :) Hoping another class opens up.
• CamperBob2 2y ago
  Based on how helpful I found his earlier videos, I'm interested in checking our Andrej Karpathy's new ML course ( https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n?tab=readme-ov-file ) when it's ready.
• dSebastien 2y ago
  My upcoming Knowledge Management course: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/knowledge-management-for-beginners https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/knowledge-management-for... Sorry for the self plug, but I want to help as many people as possible discover and leverage Knowledge Management.
• suranyami 2y ago
  Not a course, as such, but reading “Measurement” by Paul Lockhart, of “A Mathematician’s Lament fame. I’ve never read anything that so clearly communicates and leads you into a state of mind that COMPELS you to prove mathematical conjectures from first principles. I found myself furiously sketching geometric proofs and simplifying algebraic conundrums with an enthusiasm I haven’t experienced in decades. And a course on sewing for beginners and continuing Japanese.