Currently, my favorites:
- Cal Henderson's keynote @ DjangoCon 2008 - AKA "why Cal Henderson hates Django"
- Linus Torvalds talks about Git
Yuval A
2009-03-17 13:35:12
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Abelson and Sussman's 1986 lectures based on the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. You can download the lectures here.
Dustin Campbell
2009-03-17 13:38:28
I wouldn't consider this as non-academic, as the poster asked.
compie
2009-03-17 15:45:38
But it hits the "fun" requirement. :-)
Dustin Campbell
2009-03-17 18:44:00
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The Belgian Java User Group - http://www.parleys.com - have a nice library of different Java related presentations made on different Java conventions, like JavaPolis, SpringOne, Devoxx, and so on. Worth to check out if you're interested in different Java solutions and frameworks!
Björn
2009-03-17 13:39:28
"try to post specific talks, not just "google talks have good things...". As much as that is true :)"
Arve Systad
2009-05-18 15:01:21
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I think most TED talks are outstanding. They're not only about programming and software, though. Have a look at those talks tagged "software".
Stephan202
2009-03-17 13:53:03
TED is great, but sometimes the time limit makes it difficult for the speakers to include a lot of detail. What I like to do is if I find an intruguing TED talk, I google the speaker for more talks/presentations by them.
mandaleeka
2009-05-03 19:25:29
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Knuth's Computer Musings, especially the "Aha" sessions recorded during one semester of his problem solving course.
palm3D
2009-03-17 15:06:46
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My favorites are:
- Joshua Bloch - How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
- Scott Berkun: Why Software Sucks
- Philip Wadler - Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages
- The Xbox 360 Security System and its Weaknesses
- Away with Applications: The Death of the Desktop
- JavaScript: The Good Parts
- jQuery
These are all non-academic, so enjoy!
compie
2009-03-17 15:40:48
The Raymond Chen talk seems to be unavailable...any idea where another copy might be had?
drewh
2009-03-19 13:10:41
The video is available if you click on one of the download links below the video player. However, the audio is nearly useless.
Vulcan Eager
2009-08-22 17:44:23
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Sometimes when I get an episode of OCD I arrange videos I like into YouTube playlists. These might be interesting:
- Clean Code Talks
Miško Hevery's series of talks on code quality and testing. Great stuff. - "Good Stuff"
Talks that didn't fit any other category. Watch Three Beautiful Quicksorts, Byzantine Agreement and The Paradox of Choice (the latter not strictly programming related) - Advanced Topics in Programming Languages
The Google Tech Talk series with the same name. I especially found A Lock-Free concurrent Hash Table, The Java Memory Model, Concurrency and Message Passing in Newsqueak and Java Puzzlers enlightening. - UI design etc
At least check out Don't Make Me Click - Eclipse development
- Agile etc
Don't miss Mary Poppendiecks The role of leadership in software development - Google Test Automation Conference 2008
Also, there's this very enjoyable interview:
I wouldn't do a very good job answering if I didn't point you to InfoQ. There are some great videos there. Also see these related (bordering on duplicate) SO questions:
- Must-see tech talks/presentations?
- Conferences that offer videos for downloading?
- What are great programming-related online talks / videos?
- Java EE video lectures
- Videos about c++ programming?
- What are your favorite CS video lectures?
- What online, video-based courses are out there?
- Are there any online videos lectures about "computer organization and architecture"?
- C# Training videos
- What is your favorite Open Courseware Class?
Henrik Gustafsson
2009-03-17 17:15:13
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Anything by Herb Sutter is usually good. I've watched his talks on the concurrency revolution, but also his talk here on machine architecture is very interesting.
Kaz Dragon
2009-03-19 13:07:58
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These are academic, but I enjoyed them so much I'm posting it in case someone isn't aware of them yet. Enormously entertaining and instructive. 11 courses and some ancillary material.
From the site:
ArsDigita University was a one-year, intensive post-baccalaureate program in Computer Science based on the undergraduate course of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
WakeUpScreaming
2009-03-21 17:51:41
I year latter i have to say almost forgot about Ars Digita. Great lectures no doubt
Mite Mitreski
2010-07-06 03:33:27
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I enjoy John Carmack's Quakecon Keynotes, in particular the 2007 keynote. It's really geeky, but educational if you are into computers, video games and rocket ships.
Chris Bartow
2009-05-03 19:15:00
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Lecturefox has a huge list of IT related lectures (both video and audio).
If you didn't know about Youtube's EDU directory it has a huge amount of online video'd lectures for Universities. The first ones I found:
- MIT
- The first internet router
- UC Berkley's Java course (and a lot of others here)
Unfortunately there's no UK university's on there that I could find.
One other set that I'll add is Steven Skiena's lectures (author of the Algorithm Design Manual)
Chris S
2009-06-13 19:57:14
Unfortunately last time i looked into Channel 9 it was using silver light :S
Annerajb
2009-10-16 13:34:58
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Nobody mentioned khanacademy before. It's not directly programming related, however many of you probably need to understand subjects like linear algebra and trigonometry (at least if u do graphics) Also the lectures are quite good, so check it out :)
Nils
2010-07-29 09:26:55