On Jan 26, 2008 4:36 PM, Mark Schoonover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/26/08, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2008 9:17 PM, Mark Schoonover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1/26/08, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 25, 2008 8:42 PM, Mark Schoonover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > Well, I don't know if I won since it took me almost the entire week of > > > > > thinking about it before I had that aha moment! > > > > > > > > Speaking of "taking all week," how should the schedule be going? If > > > > we're sticking to one lecture per week, MIT-OCW says we should be > > > > having L3 next Monday, with the 1.1 exercises, Problem Set 1, and > > > > Project 0 all due then (not to mention reading 1.2 in the text). > > > > > > > > I haven't even read the L2 notes yet, though I should be able to get > > > > through them tomorrow. As for Problem Set 1, I don't even know where > > > > to find that. How is everybody doing with all this? > > > > > > Well, I wasn't really trying to stick to the exact calendar, just what do > > we > > > need to do. I'm planning on moving on to the next section tomorrow. > > > > The main reason I mentioned it is that the whole iteration/recursion > > discussion here looks like it was triggered by Section 1.2 of the SICP > > text. Should we be trying to stay together? As I mentioned above, I'm > > just getting started on L2 and I've not even begun reading 1.2. > > Well, that's probably going to happen, and I'm OK with it. For myself, > I can devote about 3-4 hours per week to this group. That leaves me > with less time to do the actual problems once you tack on keeping the > wiki up to date. > > Most of us work fulltime, have families and such. I didn't want to > hammer on a strict schedule, but to move along at a rate that people > would enjoy working within the group. I'm using the MIT calendar for > organizational purposes only, not to stay on a specific schedule. > > Hopefully I'm more clear than I was in the past...
OK, that's reasonable. I was just already feeling left behind because I wasn't able to follow the recursion/iteration conversation(s). I suppose I can just read those threads again once I get through that part of the text, but with the aforementioned "extracurricular responsibilities" (work, family, etc.) I don't know that I'll be able to. But then again, maybe I need to try not to be such a perfectionist about involving myself in every possible way... it's just that, since I've fairly recently switched careers to IT, I'm trying to absorb everything I can to make up for the lack of "formal" CS training. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier... ~Humphrey Lyttleton -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
