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Originally Posted by soccerargentina10
dave are you taking the PGM class? doing it with octave? what are your thoughts on it?
I tried the PGM class out during the first heat, but I didn't finish. Word is that PGM is one of the few courses not dumbed down.
I plan to do the course again, but I have way too much on my plate right now to bother. Yes, I will do it in Octave. The reasoning why is because I don't have a good understanding of the math involved, and I'd rather not fight Python to figure it out.
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Originally Posted by Shoe Lace
Just finished Week 2's problem set for the 6.00x course. Pretty interesting. Took me a lot longer than expected based on the initial description.
You are a real tease... What was the question, so we can all LOL at you for thinking its hard?
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Originally Posted by Go_Blue
The SaaS HW1 is proving to be a pretty big challenge. I'm trying to write all of the programs in Java first since that's my most comfortable language, and then convert to Ruby based on a lot of research online. But yarrrrr it is not going smoothly so far.
I could be wrong here, but I would NOT touch that class right now. The reasoning is that you aren't buying into just a language, but an entire culture surrounding this and similar languages, which is violently anti-corporate (JAVA), and at least my own impression is that programming in JAVA is much slower than RoR.
The fact is that you are going to be doing every single homework assignment twice + try to learn a somewhat difficult language while you are facing a continuously steeper learning curve.
I'm not trying to be offensive to you, but you have little chance of completing this class. I'm only passing a lesson to you that I wasted too many hours learning: wait until you are actually ready, and learning Ruby would be a pretty good first step. If the teachers in the FAQ say you should only be spending 5 hours on a programming assignment, and you are spending 20 to 30, you probably aren't ready. Aside from learning Ruby, I would also suggest learning some systems design for controlling complexity, but I hope someone else can weigh in here.