Week 1 was all about the course orientation. I didn’t find it too challenging, but the soft entry (at least compared to COMP695!) still managed to lull me into a mistaken impression of the course pace. Anyway!
The list of recommended and background readings in the first week did stump me somewhat. I’m a fast reader, generally speaking, but this takes a lot of time to go through properly. I know we don’t have to read all of it, but it’s still a lot. I did go through and download some of the material just in case it goes away.
And as if that wasn’t enough, I got five more books recommended just out of my introduction post (which I did enjoy greatly). I don’t know how I’m ever going to keep up with this while working full time, much less while taking another course at the same time, but I’m going to have to figure something out…
Oddly enough, if I had a do-over, I might spend more time reading than I did, if only to have gotten me into the headspace of needing to spend every waking minute reading for the next three months. It might have made week 2 a bit easier. Beyond that, week 1 was a good introduction to the course!
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