Like most of us I am a gadget nutcase. I really started to depend on my iPod when I was frequently standing in immigration lines, and now it and my iPhone go everywhere with me. I have even looked into building my own maintenance and reliability gadgets on the iOS platform.
Aside from all the other great uses for these devices, I recently found something on iTunes that has dramatically changed my own understanding of engineering, and is helping me daily to improve my understanding of what we do.
iTunesU is probably one of the very best kept secrets in the new smart phone markets.
This is an area on iTunes where some of the worlds leading universities and educational institutions are freely uploading their courses. What a mid blowing opportunity.
In the past few months I have learned to build programs in Java as well as build iPhone apps. And I learned it from Stanford, the University that has fed most of the brilliant minds driving the Internet revolution today.
Right now I am working through a few semesters of mechanical Engineering from Berkley University as well as some great stuff on mathematics and probabilistic analysis from Khan Academy. (Whoever they are)
If you haven't discovered this yet I sincerely recommend it to you as a way to get greater understanding of most things you could want to learn about in today's world. Brilliant.
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