i actually found friends who i could pay to tutor me for quite a lot of lectures. especially one friend was really good at that. but just looking through the slides and asking an AI whenever you have questions works quite decently too i think.
try to understand. see it as structured knowledge. don’t just accept and memorize facts—in CS things are usually at least a somewhat sensible solution to a problem.
recall after each section and each session
find practice exams where solutions exist. after doing an exercise, check immediately the solution. clearly understand mistakes. (if there aren’t sufficiently many public exams then use the homework exercises. there are usually solutions.
overall was probably roughly 50-50 split between learning and understanding the content and doing exercises. you can also skip some stuff that doesn’t seem worth learning.
take sufficient breaks. (i often did 1.5-2h tutor sessions with 1-2 5min breaks.)
also be rested sufficiently in general. non-stimulating rest is better than youtube or so. takes a while to remove such addictions though. you usually don’t want to deplete dopamine low enough that you have a too strong pull to stimulated rest. rather do some walking/hiking or whatever active recovery works for you.
and ofc obvious basics like sleep, reasonably healthy food, sports.
Not much, but here’s one post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aq84rfx3XRyLd9y2v/optimizing-feedback-to-learn-faster
Some things I did when learning:
i actually found friends who i could pay to tutor me for quite a lot of lectures. especially one friend was really good at that. but just looking through the slides and asking an AI whenever you have questions works quite decently too i think.
try to understand. see it as structured knowledge. don’t just accept and memorize facts—in CS things are usually at least a somewhat sensible solution to a problem.
recall after each section and each session
find practice exams where solutions exist. after doing an exercise, check immediately the solution. clearly understand mistakes. (if there aren’t sufficiently many public exams then use the homework exercises. there are usually solutions.
overall was probably roughly 50-50 split between learning and understanding the content and doing exercises. you can also skip some stuff that doesn’t seem worth learning.
take sufficient breaks. (i often did 1.5-2h tutor sessions with 1-2 5min breaks.)
also be rested sufficiently in general. non-stimulating rest is better than youtube or so. takes a while to remove such addictions though. you usually don’t want to deplete dopamine low enough that you have a too strong pull to stimulated rest. rather do some walking/hiking or whatever active recovery works for you.
and ofc obvious basics like sleep, reasonably healthy food, sports.