A* offers online computer science courses in self-study format. Currently, courses don’t have live lectures or video recordings. All courses other than Introduction to Programming courses are available online. For course details, please see A* Computer Science curriculum.
Provided Services in Online Courses:
The following services will be provided to the enrolled students:
- the curriculum and the course materials are the same as the onsite courses
- lecture notes will be provided in print in advance as a booklet in all courses except advanced ones (since advanced courses doesn’t have lectures but only problem sets)
- each student will have an AlphaStar e-learning account
- students will solve the exercises / problem sets in their accounts at home
- students will submit their solutions for the weekly problems which will be graded by the automated grader
- almost all the problems are former USACO contest problems
- quizzes / exams will be taken online
- solutions of a problem set will be available after two weeks the problem set is provided
- students can post their questions to the course discussion forum