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

[sabeth]

I'm still working my way through the reading for Lectures 1-3 and the first problem set – I don't think I'll be able to keep up with two lectures a week, so I'm trying for one. (And falling behind, but I think I can still catch up. :D;;)

I don't know about anyone else, but less MIT-ish problems would be really helpful for me. I can grasp the programming just fine, but my brain pretty much just shuts down when confronted with phrases like "the sum of the logarithms of all the primes from 2 to n." (Something more like the exercises in Chris Pine's Ruby Tutorial, maybe? Although I'm not sure I'll have time to do those on top of the MIT problem sets.)

[elz]

I love that tutorial - I stumbled across it a few years ago, and it really clarified some of the basics for me. I think I'll go a-googling and see if there are similar resources for Python.

[luckykitty]

Pretty much ditto this comment--I was trying to keep up, but with Thanksgiving craziness, I haven't been able to get to Lecture 3 and I'm definitely not going to be able to do two a week with Christmas coming up, so I'm going to be slowing down to one a week I think (and trying to catch up after this week ;P)

Also this is exactly how I feel on this: I can grasp the programming just fine, but my brain pretty much just shuts down when confronted with phrases like "the sum of the logarithms of all the primes from 2 to n."