Khan Academy and other video teachers need to have lots of problems for each lesson for the students to solve. We learn best by doing.
For example, I remember my Calc II professor said that when he was in college, he'd do every single problem in the book for that lesson--even though only half of the problems were assigned (the ones w/o answers in the back). And look where he ended up: as an expert in calculus.
Also, I'm going through Stanford's CS193p (iOS dev) on iTunesU right now in my free time after work. Probably 80% of my learning happens by completing the assignments.
>Also, I'm going through Stanford's CS193p (iOS dev) on iTunesU right now in my free time after work. Probably 80% of my learning happens by completing the assignments.
Are these the assignments you used? Or are the ones on iTunesU different?
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Khan Academy and other video teachers need to have lots of problems for each lesson for the students to solve. We learn best by doing.
For example, I remember my Calc II professor said that when he was in college, he'd do every single problem in the book for that lesson--even though only half of the problems were assigned (the ones w/o answers in the back). And look where he ended up: as an expert in calculus.
Also, I'm going through Stanford's CS193p (iOS dev) on iTunesU right now in my free time after work. Probably 80% of my learning happens by completing the assignments.
>Also, I'm going through Stanford's CS193p (iOS dev) on iTunesU right now in my free time after work. Probably 80% of my learning happens by completing the assignments.
Are these the assignments you used? Or are the ones on iTunesU different?
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/download...
That page has the assignments, lecture notes, and source code from the lecture demos. The lecture videos are hosted on iTunesU.