Trials in Snake Charming

Just completed my “quiz” for 6.00.1x.  It’s really more like a midterm.  It took me roughly 4 hours to complete and holy cow, two of those problems, both of which involved debugging or completing recursive algorithms, were real mindbenders.  I powered through them though and finished with a 98%!  Feeling really good right now.  The past year of effort I’ve put in is bearing fruit.  It’s a hell of a feeling and if you are on the fence about joining me, what are you waiting for?  You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain

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Good evening friends. This is my first update in a month and with good reason. At the suggestion of a friend and mentor of mine, Jody Brookover, I signed up for the winter session of 6.00.1x, which is edx’s offering of MIT’s intro to computer science using python course.

edX, for those not familiar, offers auditable online courses from top universities on many fields including those related to math, science, and engineering. You can take these courses for free or pay a little money for certification. In some cases you can even pay a couple thousand dollars and take them for real course credit complete with a harvard transcript.

I will be adding edX to my road to success tab. My growth during the last three weeks of the 6.00.1x course has been exponential. For the first time I am feeling truly confident that I know the fundamentals and can read python code clearly without any outside aids.

I will be working on my project again next week alongside my “classroom” training so expect some new updates on funnypages and a return of Monday night coding sessions, most likely on the 24th.