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]

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!)