* The math gets significantly less heavy after the first few lectures. If you get lost, plow ahead and revisit the first few lectures after you've gotten further.
* Erik Demaine rocks. He went straight to the top of my list of "computer scientists I'd like to have a beer with sometime..."
* I found the discussions of Red-Black Trees and the graph theory "trilogy" to be especially enjoyable, but that could just be me.
there is lots of content (mit open courseware, lectures from many universities in iTunes, free books being released online) available for self-learners.
is there a "virtual university/classroom" website that helps different people to study together?
A few random comments:
* It is a good idea to download the course materials from http://ocw.mit.edu/ans15436/ZipForEndUsers/6/6-046JFall-2005...
* The video lectures can be downloaded if you hack the URLs a bit. Full instructions at: http://amazingstuffs.blogspot.com/2007/10/download-data-stru..., but it doesn't bode well if you can't figure it out for yourself
* The math gets significantly less heavy after the first few lectures. If you get lost, plow ahead and revisit the first few lectures after you've gotten further.
* Erik Demaine rocks. He went straight to the top of my list of "computer scientists I'd like to have a beer with sometime..."
* I found the discussions of Red-Black Trees and the graph theory "trilogy" to be especially enjoyable, but that could just be me.