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!

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[aldanise]

I'm way behind, because I'm also taking an intro programming course in college, but it's in Java, which is compiled rather than interpreted, and I'm having trouble switching over to Python. Also, CS=totally not my major. But that's my fault and I'll catch up.

I don't know how useful it would be (see: way behind, no idea what's going on), but my teacher has a wacky sense of humor about pop culture, so we got early problem sets like write "A Thousand Miles" in code that will allow you to change the distance by just changing one line. We're working on a sudoku solver now. Would those types of questions be interesting to anyone?