Question

Those who have been doing the probsets, how long are people generally taking to do them? Particularly from probset2 onwards.

Answer 1

I have to admit that designing takes me in the order of an hour maiking it run usually also debugging even longer ps1 took me a full day ps2 which I'm working on right now will probably take me several days

Answer 2

cool thanks.
the hangman prob took me a whole day alone

Answer 3

Good to know, I'm not alone in taking so long, even when I have a reasonable idea of how to tackle the problem it takes quite a while to convert the algorithm to debugged code

Answer 4

as long as it needs

Answer 5

The latest one I did, #3, took me about seven hours. (Wordgame.) Was wondering how everyone else was faring on these.

Answer 6

each part took me about that long
ps3a: 8 hour-ish
ps3b: 9 hour-ish

I loose most time on testing and debugging
in ps3b i lost hours trying to make combinations until i figured out that the help code also included that function
it was a good brush up of my permutations and combination math, though

checking with the solutions is not included
I found that ps3bsol had an ident wrong
(see attachment)

Answer 7

the else should be at the same level as the if

Answer 8

Ah. I was having problems running ps3bsol for some reason, wonder if that's related. It would just get stuck at showing me the computer's hand, but I did edit it to comment out some stuff and might've accidently deleted something.

Have you taken the first quiz yet? I failed horribly on it. It's hard to score properly as well, but even with giving points for partial answers I got something around a D+/C-. Without partial points, it'd probably just be a straight F.

Answer 9

No, I haven't done that yet
I have to watch lecture 8 and recitation 4 and lecture 9
after that I intend to revise Unit9
do de practise quiz and have a look at the vs 2008 quiz1 sample problems
and only then will I give quiz1 a go, especially now I see people being shocked about its difficulty

Answer 10

I was also having problems to the solutions in problem set 3, problems 6b and 6c.

Most problems sets have taken me several hours to complete on average, but I haven't been doing them continuously.