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elz ([personal profile] elz) wrote in [community profile] intro_to_cs2009-10-27 12:38 pm

Plans and Scheduling

Okay, so, picking a schedule!

There are 24 lecture videos for the class, so what I'd like to aim to do is start with lecture #1 next week (11/2), do two a week on Mondays and Wednesdays, take a break around Christmas and New Year's and finish up the first week in February.

I'm thinking that if there are enough people who have different scheduling needs, we could try to split it up something like this:

a) Twice a week, start in November - finish early February
b) Once a week, start in November - finish end of April
c) Twice a week, start in January - finish March/April

Then also if you had to jump in and out at any point, you could pick back up with whichever pace fit best.

The tricky part about learning on your own, at least for me, is the lack of dates to have to stick to and the lack of anything prodding me to put down the novel, turn off the CSI rerun, etc. and do some serious reading or lecture-watching. So you want enough flexibility that you don't get overwhelmed, but not so much that you get... underwhelmed.

Thoughts?
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[personal profile] badgerbag 2009-11-10 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
I'm already behind but I'm going to try!
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[personal profile] dcdevotee 2009-11-18 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Planning to start in January too. Exciting! This is such a good idea.

Hi folks....

[personal profile] haffie 2009-12-14 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd started this course probably around the end of october , and its good to know i'm not the only one struggling !

My intention is to finish this by february, but so far i've became stuck on problem set 1 :(

Due to lots going on recently (my girlfriends birthday, my birthday, holiday etc) i was starting to lose interest. Hopefully this will be the proverbial kick up the bum i require to progress with this as i'm hoping to start an open university course in february.

Making regular time for this course and necessary reading would be a preferable head start to being completely overwhelmed when i do start the OU course.

Happy learning, new found coursebuddies !

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