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Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)
Stanford · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2011–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 105 other lecture videos tagged University lectures & courses, the mean is 4.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 4.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2011–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 17 minutes 26 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2008-07-19.
- Channel / speaker
- Stanford
- Verified runtime
- 17m 26s
- YouTube upload date
- 2008-07-19
- Hacker News mention years
- 2011–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other lecture videos in University lectures & courses. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)Current video | 3 | 3 | 100% | — | 17m 26s | 2008-07-19 |
| How to Speaklecture · MIT OpenCourseWare | 17 | 16 | 85% | No recorded overlap | 63m 43s | 2019-12-20 |
| MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwiglecture · MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center | 16 | 13 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 71m 40s | 2017-02-06 |
| 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biologylecture · Stanford | 15 | 15 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 57m 15s | 2011-02-01 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast”. Its short rationale: High-quality long-form lecture series.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've ever seen?”. Its short rationale: Low-level view of memory and instructions, then paradigms in Scheme and Python.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Please stop asking how to find a technical co-founder.”. Its short rationale: Intro programming lectures giving non-techies a grasp of coding.