Hey, I found this site through Reddit and it's pretty awesome. I've self-educated in programming and web design since childhood, and for the past few months I've been thinking about ways to make self-education easier. My vision was similar to Curious Reef.
There is one thing that nobody has really done yet - self-educators need a thorough list of careers/majors, relevant areas of study, prerequisites for each area of study, along with relevant learning resources. If a university can recommend a series of courses to take for your major, why can't an internet service do the same?
..so I just wanted to bounce that idea around. Have you thought about attempting to index all areas of study here? Does anyone know of other services like this who have done/attempted it? It's the one thing that I've always wanted throughout years of self-education and I'm considering writing an app for this purpose.
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That's an interesting idea. I think that is partly done on sites like OCW, where they list all of the classes in a particular subject area. But that's just a general listing and not a suggested multi-year curriculum like you're saying.
I just checked out MIT's curriculum for computer science majors, and I guess I could probably translate that into a curriculum. However, I don't have a computer science degree, so I would kind of be guessing at times.
I think that deciding what to learn can be a problem at times. So far, I've tried to keep the site more free-form without trying to suggest what people should learn. It might be getting to the point where it would be useful to add functionality like you're suggesting. I guess that I can't envision specifically what that would look like right now, but I will continue to think about that.
Actually, I recently found a website that is working on this issue: saylor.org
