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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
Tangent: it’s quite alien to see such intense explicit study for ugrad CS. I did none—no reviewing, no exercises, no written notes. Only murderous problem sets and projects. I think more explicit learning would’ve helped me, but not sure the right balance.
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Andy Matuschak
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This college student has been live-streaming his daily study sessions for the past year, 12 hours straight, every day: youtube.com/c/JamesScholz/ He’s not narrating or providing funny commentary like a typical Twitch streamer. It’s just: you watch him study, very intently!
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Scott Farrar
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Wondering how I'd feel if I knew a student of mine was doing this. The instinct would be to intervene I'd probably want to talk with them about their goals, offer some alternate assigments maybe have them guest lecture or produce more artifacts (is he already doing this?)
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Bob Warwick
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Not Caltech, but for me studying was all about becoming comfortable with certain classes of problems. I remember running variations on the same discrete problems over and over until I had learned to see the meta pattern in them.
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Bob Warwick
@warwick
Started with re-doing problems that were demoed in class, then re-did them over and over until I didn’t have to look at my notes for help, then worked on variations of the theme until it clicked. Then do it again a couple days later, just to make sure it was actually in there.
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