CS106B - Free Course from Stanford

CS106B is a free course from Stanford available online. This course is about data structures and recursion.

The latest free video lectures are made last 2011 Spring Quarter and you can access them at ClassX - CS106B: Programming Abstractions. The professor during this quarter is Steve Cooper. You can visit the CS106B's website in this quarter here. All lecture handouts, codes, the course reader, assignments and many other materials for the course are available in the website.

An older set of video lectures are available at SEE (Stanford Engineering Everywhere) - Programming Abstractions. Go to the bottom part of the web page to download the complete course materials.

If you are planning to do the assignments and compile the example codes during the lectures you'll need Visual Studio 2005 and the CS106 Library. If you have Visual Studio 2008 instead, please read Dani's article on how you can make the CS106B Library work with Visual Studio 2008.

Enjoy!

I have done some of the assignments last 2011 Spring Quarter. You can view my solution here.

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Free Lessons for Chruch Pianists:
Free lessons, tips and downloads for church pianists

DVD Courses (Reharmonization, Play by Ear!, Arranging, Accompanying, Theory for Church Pianists, etc.):
Over 30 hours of DVD instruction for church pianists

 

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Playing Mood Music Video By Greg Howlett

In this video, Greg Howlett teaches how to play soft piano music when playing reflective songs.

You can download the example used in the video here.

Here's an outline on what you'll learn in this video:

Playing Mood Music with Greg Howlett

I. General Principles

A. Focus on harmony. You have to know what notes belong to what chord.

B. Spread out the notes you play. Use open voicing

C. Less is More! Play less

1. Simplify the patterns you play.
2. Avoid doubling/octaves.

Train your ear. It's your best tool.

II. Beginning Techniques (Applications)

A. Open arpeggios (left hand)

B. Play open intervals in both hands (rather than octaves). Play 6ths, 5ths, 7ths, 9ths, 10ths but avoid octaves.

C. Broken chords. Play parts of a chord in different segments of time.

1. It makes you have more control over the sound.
2. It creates movement; it fills up space.

D. Take your time (Rubato, "out of time"). This helps remove tension from the music.

III. Advanced (Harmony) Techniques

A. Add 7ths to your triads. (Major 7ths or minor 7ths).

B. Chord substitutions (reharmonization).

C. Color notes. Notes added to chords in addition to 1, 3, 5, and 7

Computer Networking Tutorial by Bucky (from Youtube)

Computer Networking Tutorial - 1 - Introduction to Networking 

Computer Networking Tutorial - 2 - Networking Basics

Computer Networking Tutorial - 3 - Network Topology 

Bus, ring, star and mesh topologies explained.

Computer Networking Tutorial - 4 - OSI Model Physical Layer

Overview of the 7 layers of OSI (Open Systems Interconnection)

Taken from www.WindowsNetworking.com

Physical and Data Link Layers- transmit data, transmit frames and packets
Network, Transport and Session Layers- communicate between different computers
Presentation and Application Layers- present the data to you (your software like the browser), data formatting


The Physical Layer comes with things like cables, fiber optics, radio waves, etc. It also has your network connectors and network topology. (The layer of stuffs that you can see.)

The difference between analog and digital signals (used to send data between two computers) is also explained in this video.

Computer Networking Tutorial - 5 - OSI Model Data Link Layer
 
What the Data Link Layer does is take the data (bits/binary code) and formats it into a frame, a unit of data that contains your address information. (It puts the bunch of binary code, together with the address of the sender and the address of the receiver, in an envelop [the frame]).

Computer Networking Tutorial - 6 - OSI Model Network and Transport Layer


The job of the Network Layer is to control the passage of packets along routs in the network. A packet is a unit of data that is formatted to send it a signal over the network.. The Network Layer gathers information from different parts of your networks (like computers...), called discovery, and that's how it finds the quickest path.


The main job of the Transport Layer is to ensure that the data is sent and received in the same order.

Free Piano Video Lessons by Greg Howlett

Greg Howlett is a Christian concert pianist and recording artist.

Here is a sample of his lessons:  "Relating harmony to melody"

Listed below are his free video lessons on reharmonization.

Minor chord substitutions video demonstration (Part 1)

Minor chord substitutions video demonstration (Part 2)

Silent Night reharmonization

Relating harmony to melody

Reharmonization of "I Surrender All"

Reharmonization of "My Jesus I Love Thee"

Chord substitutions: Does the ii chord sub for the IV or V?

Open voicing

What a Friend We Have In Jesus (Part 1)

What a Friend We Have In Jesus (Part 2)

What a Friend We Have In Jesus (Part 3)

What a Friend We Have In Jesus (Part 4)

What a Friend We Have In Jesus (Part 5)