jimrandomh comments on MIT Challenge: blogger to attempt CS curriculum on own - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 28 September 2011 12:26:09PM 0 points [-]

Are you buying the textbooks/ finding your own? Just using the video lectures (and internet for removed sections) seems unbearably slow, and you aren't in nearly as much control over the flow of information.

When I was watching Khan Academy's lectures, I got good results from VLC player's time dilation; it speeds up the video and adjusts the audio's pitch to compensate, so you can adjust the pacing. I experimentally determined 1.8x to be the right speed for me, though that will depend on you, and on whose lecture you're watching, and some of the time saved should probably go into pausing the video strategically to digest things.

Comment author: ScottHYoung 29 September 2011 12:37:33AM 1 point [-]

Yes--for my pilot course I went around 1.5-2x, strategically speeding up and slowing down. Lectures are way more efficient when you can fast-forward and rewind.