Status check!

[elz]

I'm planning to post lecture 4 today, but I also thought maybe we could do some brainstorming. How are you doing so far? Finding anything confusing or the pace too fast? Would it be helpful to have some simpler, less MIT-ish problems to warm up with? A weekly chat option to go over things or watch the lectures? Partners to work on the problem sets with?

Fire away with any ideas and suggestions!

Comments

[gchick]

1. Moar tickies! On the last lesson, I got through three questions and fell down on the fourth; it would be easier to track my own progress from one problem to the next, and to spot any big difficulties the group as a whole is having if there were ticky boxes for each problem.

2. I'd love a chat option, but I can't imagine the cat-herding to find a time that works across time zones and schedules -- maybe something more like an always-on chat space, IRC channel, whatever where people can stop by for help and/or leave questions at the times that suit them. That's a tricky one; synchronous stuff always is.

3. Moar shared resources! I've just tagged the online readings for the MIT class and a few others in delicious with the tag "intro-cs-dw". If anyone else has more good links (mine aren't necessarily class-specific or even Python-specific, but I'm aiming for good teach-yourself stuff), please go ahead and use the same tag.

[elz]

I thought about IRC, and then I remembered that I haven't used it since ~2002. But if anybody wanted to set something up, I'd be game!

And good call on breaking up the ticky boxes and using delicious more.