Hey everyone! I really like how websites like Brilliant try to teach in an interactive way. But it’s like $160 (or more depending on the region) a year so I’ve been making a free one.
It’s called OpenAha. right now there’s 140+ courses and 1000+ lessons in math, physics and chemistry. no account or ads.
A few to try if you only have a minute:
- untangle a graph: https://openaha.org/courses/graphs/planar/?step=1
- draw the house in one stroke: https://openaha.org/courses/graphs/konigsberg/?step=3
- program a little robot: https://openaha.org/courses/coding/sequence/?step=6
- Two pendulums passing energy back and forth: https://openaha.org/courses/waves/coupled/?step=3
This project is mostly implemented with claude: I planned every course, then wrote the lessons with AI. so far only about one third of the pages have been carefully reviewed by a person. That’s why I’d really like people to poke at it. If a lesson is confusing or sth’s wrong, make a PR or hit the flag button in the lessons. Also feel free to contribute on github to make this even better.
code: https://github.com/open-aha/open-aha.github.io
Edit, to clear something up: OpenAha isn’t affiliated with Brilliant and doesn’t use any of their content. I don’t even have a Brilliant account. Brilliant just uses the style of learning I liked (try things first, explanation after). every lesson was written for this project, and we’re improving it as an open source community.
And yes it’s not finished, there will be mistakes. That’s what the flag button on every step is for, every report gets fixed in public on github
Are you sure? The privacy policy says “This site is hosted on GitHub Pages by GitHub, Inc. (USA). When you visit, GitHub logs your IP address for security purposes (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR: our legitimate interest in a secure, working website). The site cannot be delivered without it. GitHub keeps these logs as long as it needs them for security and publishes no fixed period. GitHub takes part in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; see the GitHub Privacy Statement.” I think the server itself may actually be GitHub somehow?
Yes, as i said:
And that server is github pages - one of microsoft’s free static web hosting services.
This is might seem inconsistent with what OP said:
… but it isn’t really imo. You always need some kind of server to put something on the web for the world (using a normal web browser without installing something else) to be able to access it; what they mean by “no servers” here is that (1) there is no logic on the server, the server just serves a static web page, and (2) you can easily get the static files yourself and serve them yourself (or browse them from your filesystem without even serving them).