Plans and Scheduling

[elz]

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?

Comments

[zvi]

I think it would be cool to do with you in January, but I am afraid I will forget. I could subscribe to the community now, but I don't really want a bunch of posts for a course I'm not currently taking on my reading page

Er, elz, do you think you could come up with a tag to announce the start of a new session, and I can just subscribe to that until such time as I am ready to jump in?

[elz]

No problem! How's this?

[zvi]

That's good, but you have to define the tag before I can subscribe to it.

If you go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/tags?authas=intro_to_cs you can create the tag without attaching it to any entries.

[elz]

Hmm, I had, but it looks like I had to attach it to a public entry to make it public. At any rate, it should hopefully work now.

[zvi]

Thanks! I've got it now!