Timeline for Should one study undergrad TCS materials before taking grad-level ones? (soft question)
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| Jul 1, 2020 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackCSTheory/status/1278116106775998464 | ||
| Jun 29, 2020 at 8:51 | vote | accept | raycosine | ||
| Jun 29, 2020 at 8:51 | comment | added | raycosine | Thank you so much for the comments! These are very helpful to me and exactly what I was doing this weekend and will continue doing in the future! | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 8:33 | comment | added | Hermann Gruber | When you are self-learning, it's very important that you don't get bored. But skipping exercises can be dangerous. Do at least one on each part/chapter, and I mean: really write down your solution. Sometimes I had been confident that I understood something just by thinking out a rough solution, but it later turned out I was wrong. | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 1:32 | comment | added | Jason Gaitonde | Maybe here’s a helpful test that could give a best-of-both-worlds: you can skip material you think you already know, but make sure you look at exercises and feel confident about them. In the interest of time, I don’t think one ought do every problem in a book or anything like that, but a good sign that you might need more “reinforcement” is if there’s many exercises that you really have no idea at all how to approach. But as commented above, you need to find your own routine! | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 19:46 | answer | added | Avi Tal | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 2:44 | comment | added | Mahdi Cheraghchi | Depends on your learning style and specific goals. But in general, YES! Even better is to also study undergrad pure math materials! | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 2:21 | history | asked | raycosine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |