Day 49 - 1st Stage Closing Sprint

Last night I took an inventory of where I stood with my work. I'm 7 weeks into the CS Course, and I'm very far behind where I want to be. The point was to take the same courses EE/CS majors do at an accelerated pace to give myself a several-month crash-course in Computer Science. If I'm taking as long or longer than the courses themselves I'm doing something wrong.

Current standing:

SICP/CS61A: p218/833 - week 5 of 14

CS106A; week 5 of 11

6.002.1x: week 2 of 4

18.01sc: section 27 of 101

So I'm giving myself 12 days to get this all done. That's my objective, and outcome I want is to build my CS fundamentals but really it's discipline. The stakes will be a lot higher in the future, so if I can prove to myself this can get done, then that's good.

I'm stacking on an extra course, MITx's 6.00.1x course on edx, Intro to CS & Programming w/ Python - because it's time dependent (so do it now or not) and I want to get a certificate in the thing (got 53/55% last time). It's not hard.

I can say that, oh when I started 48 days ago, I started from zero - and while that's true it also doesn't matter. It gets done or it doesn't. So:

In order to achieve my objective I'll need to keep up the following minimum pace:

51 pages of SICP /day

.75 weeks of CS61A / day --or-- 3 weeks every 2 days

6.002.1x is fine

7 sections (roughly 2 lectures) of 18.01sc every day

6.00.1x at normal pace.

Why do I believe I can do this? I've been able to finish an entire week of 6.002.1x Circuit Analysis in a day, and roughly the same in CS61A & CS106A. So it's not a capability issue. It's a discipline issue.

The stuff isn't extremely difficult, and I'm not looking to be a world-class expert; just to be competent & get it done. I'll be posting regular updates every 3 days until I start the 2nd set.

To meet the 9-week mark, I actually have 15 days, but I'm pretending those extra 3 don't exist. You should focus on not getting cut, not asking if you can keep the arm.