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

[medrin]

I'm not behind! Actually just caught up. But I do have an advantage by having studied programming before, only not python, and have forgot a lot of the theory. So I'm doing this as a repetition mostly. But I am available for questions! Can try to help if someone needs it!

I also just finished lecture 4 and noticed that a lot of what he was talking about would have been useful in solving problem 2. Since there are about the double amount of lectures vs. problems I propose maybe 2 lectures a week and one problem? Otherwise we're maybe going to not know the theory before trying to solve something.

[gchick]

If you look at the course schedule, you'll see that starting with the current lecture, the problem sets are spaced out every 2-3 lectures rather than one every class -- I suspect that they wanted to push through the basics of dealing with different variables, looping, defining functions, etc as quickly as possible at the beginning of the course. (How well that kind of front-loading works for different people is obviously an open question!)