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Programming Mindset

Learn about programming mindset - a logical and systematic problem-solving skill that's valuable for everyone, not just programmers

MMA Labs

Meet what Master Mindset Academy is known for: interactive content. Complex theories become simulations you control with your own hands, which sometimes teach far better than pages packed with text. Changing the settings and guessing the result before you run it is also a great way to check whether you really understand the problem.

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Try thinking in a minute

Five small puzzles, one way of thinking each. Guess first, then let the picture check you.

  • Seeing in three dimensions

    Turn a pyramid, slice a cube, find a right angle: train the spatial imagination that makes solid geometry hard.

    • Advanced
    • About 20 min
    • 9 steps

  • Construct like Euclid

    With only a compass and a straightedge, find a point equally far from two others, build a perpendicular bisector and pick the spot for a well shared by three villages. Drag the figure to see what always holds.

    • Intermediate
    • About 20 min
    • 8 steps

  • Graphs: guess first, then check

    Practise a scientist’s habit: make a prediction before you look. Move sliders, guess the shape of a graph, then write formulas that fit the data.

    • Intermediate
    • About 20 min
    • 14 steps

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Each course follows a clear path, lesson by lesson, with exercises inside the lessons. Read the outline here, then study in the Academy with the same account.

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Computer Science

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  • DSA 1019 of 10 free seats left

    Data Structures & Algorithms 101: Algorithmic thinking

    Data structures and algorithms for university students: searching, sorting, stacks, queues, recursion, hash tables, trees and graphs. Every chapter starts from a real problem; you watch, predict, make each move of the algorithm yourself, race them as n grows and write them in blocks. No programming needed.

    • Beginner
    • About 12 to 15 hours
    • 52 lessons
  • Karel 1019 of 10 free seats left

    Programming mindset with Karel

    Learn the programming mindset and practise it with Karel the robot. Through small puzzles you practise how programmers think: predicting and then checking, breaking a big job into named parts, spotting what repeats, thinking of every case, and finding bugs by reasoning instead of guessing. These moves work away from the computer too. No programming experience needed.

    • Beginner
    • About 4 to 6 hours
    • 26 lessons
  • PY 101Free

    Basic Python

    Learn Python from zero through everyday problems: money, scores, dates, text, data files. Read code, step through it, find bugs and write your own programs right in the browser. For learners from grade 6 and adult beginners.

    • Beginner
    • About 15 hours
    • 62 lessons

Data Analysis

  • DATA 10110 of 10 free seats left

    Reading charts, finding insights

    Data analysis with no code: read an unfamiliar chart, know which question it answers, spot the ways of drawing that mislead and the data that isn't there, then say an honest insight. Over a hundred charts of real data from around the world, with true stories.

    • Beginner
    • About 4 hours
    • 42 lessons
  • DMOD 10110 of 10 free seats left

    Data Modeling 101: Designing databases

    Database design for university students: find entities and attributes in a business description, choose keys, draw one-to-many and many-to-many relationships, decide what is optional, normalize to 3NF, find the bug in a model, and finally run your own model on real data. No SQL needed beforehand.

    • Beginner
    • About 8 to 10 hours
    • 38 lessons
  • SQL 1019 of 10 free seats left

    Thinking in Data with SQL

    Open a coffee chain and get to know it through its data. You learn SQL to find which table holds what, how the tables connect, and when a number looks right but is wrong. No programming needed.

    • Beginner
    • About 6 to 8 hours
    • 47 lessons

Mind games

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  • CHESS 1019 of 10 free seats left

    Chess 101: From the rules to your first real game

    Chess for anyone 16 and over, from scratch: the rules, what pieces are worth, hanging pieces, mating with queen and rook, scanning before every move and opening on principle. Every lesson trains a named thinking habit on a real board, with puzzles from the Lichess database.

    • Beginner
    • About 7 to 9 hours
    • 38 lessons
  • RUBIK 10110 of 10 free seats left

    Rubik 101: Your first Rubik's cube solve

    The Rubik's cube for anyone 10 and over, from scratch: the kinds of piece, reading turns, working out the white cross yourself, then solving layer by layer with eight algorithms until you can solve a scrambled cube. Optional chapters explain why the algorithms work and why some cubes can't be solved. Every lesson trains a named thinking habit on a 3D cube you can turn.

    • Beginner
    • About 4 to 5 hours
    • 22 lessons
  • CHESS 20110 of 10 free seats left

    Chess 201: Tactics, pawn endgames and your openings

    For players who know the rules and no longer lose pieces for nothing (after Chess 101): eight tactical motifs, spotted in your games and in your opponent's; winning or holding king-and-pawn endings; scanning for both sides, choosing among three candidates and checking yourself before you move. You choose one opening as White and one set as Black to learn properly, with the reason for every move. The course teaches skills; it promises no rating.

    • Intermediate
    • About 12 to 15 hours
    • 53 lessons

How it works

  • LLM 101How it works10 of 10 free seats left

    How LLMs work

    Open up large language models such as ChatGPT or Claude: how text is cut into tokens, how every next word is scored and drawn, how the model learns from text and is then taught to be an assistant. No programming or maths needed. Every number in the figures is real, recorded from a real small model.

    • Beginner
    • About 2 to 3 hours
    • 22 lessons
  • NET 101How it works10 of 10 free seats left

    How the Internet works

    What happens in the second it takes to open a web page? The course draws the Internet as the world's post office: messages as postcards, post offices that show the way, light in cables under the sea, a phone book, a sealed envelope. No computer knowledge needed.

    • Beginner
    • About 2 to 3 hours
    • 22 lessons

Memory cards: learn once, remember for long

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