MIT Challenge

This. You'll forget most of the math, theoretical CS stuff like theory of computation.

I'm aware of that. Well the thinking is more along the lines of "get a piece of paper because it's what actually gives you financial rewards in the form of better salary".
But what if you're someone who actually finds interest in learning and discovering, to then apply it? I sincerely doubt you will get much from cramming such a large amount of information in such a short period of time. There's simply not enough time to test if your understanding == reality.

Most people definitely cannot educate themselves. To start with, that requires an inner desire to achieve something, along with the discipline to do it. Furthermore, self learning doesn't have this "socializing experience" that normalfaggots absolutely can't live without.

It's not because every single college in existence has prerequisites and you simply cannot register for higher level courses without taking the beginner shit first. To do a CS degree in a year you'd need to do all the courses at the same time or you'd need to take super accelerated versions of all your core courses that are like 3 weeks long each so you could fit it all in a year and they probably don't offer many such courses like that, if any. Maybe you can get some kind of waiver or something to allow this nonsense but you'll have to talk to about a dozen different advisors, the head of the department, the financial offices, the registrar, and the dean and they'll probably deny you after all that anyway.

Even if CS is a meme degree the amount of shit the college would put you through in order to condense a four year program into a year means it's effectively impossible.

Lets be real this is a cool achivement and all, but it's not a degree and most employers will not see it as such

This
How is anyone not pointing out the obvious?
Doing everything in two semesters would imply that the chain of requirements is at most of length one, which is not.
So it is effectively impossible.
3 years? Maybe.

I thougth the actual challenge was finding a job outside of meme startups and dead end coding jobs from your meme university, and meme education

sounds pretty niggerlicious

>cyber security specialist
I work in infosec, and I never finished college. in fact, I barely started it.
you don't need a degree to work in IT, you just need to show proof of your knowledge.

I check exams from the guy and he fails or give poor answers for hard problems like algortihms,concurrent systems.

But CS MIT is very weak on maths,no Analysis, no algebra only calculus plus engineers linear algebra and easy discrete math.

Usually coding assigment begin more demands but he don't show it.

Some high school students could read algortihms,theory computer or IA book on free time.

Being a SOCtard, Securityoil Salesman, or Professional Metasploiter is not working infosec.

you tards take 4 years to complete a bachelors in ameriku? most countries use 3.

Why do you think CS salaries in the US absolutely MOG salaries in Europoor? My nigga, we know shit lol

>proud about being less educated
lol

I feel like it's actually better since it gives most people a chance to try out graduate level courses their senior year

>challenge
sounds more like a privilege

all the americans in my first year class, were behind in calculus etc. american high school teaches less, so we need less time for CS degrees.

I'm all and neither of those.

Will Anki help me to avoid this? because that's what I am doing. As a read the material or watch the lectures I am also creating flashcards to constantly review.

because you spent 500k on an education that the rest of us get for free?

reading liberal arts and gender studies != more educated.

>500k
Kek. I paid off my moderate student loans with part of my 30k bonus after signing with a F250 company in a flyover state making 85k + benefits. I had slightly above average grades too is the funny part.

CS niggas in the US are gods, simply put.

I went to a shit state school got a BS with a 2.6 gpa and work at the same company of mostly stuck up MIT grads with masters and 3.0+. Only had $7500 in debt after it was all said and done. Same position as the MIT grads. School is overrated as fuck.

>shit state school
mid west?

this, just get your piece of paper and move on in life

Yes it's possible, you have to study like he did though
calnewport.com/blog/2012/10/26/mastering-linear-algebra-in-10-days-astounding-experiments-in-ultra-learning/

To dispel disinfo ITT, he did all the MIT exams as well. He didn't slay the exams but passed them all. You wouldn't want to do the entire curriculum in 12 months tho you'd miss a lot of things and just be essentially studying for a test. So doing it in 2 years is more than acceptable, considering the typical MIT student has to take a shit ton of electives and english classes to go with the 'breadth' requirement of any bachelors.

For meme trades like programmer or 'cyber security' you could have independent accreditation. For real things like engineering fuck no, unless you want bridges to keep falling down.

The point of going to a school like MIT or ivy league, is networking with the other students who often come from elite families. Then when you graduate, that guy you sat next to in Convex Optimization will offer you a job at his startup to be the "CTO" or some meme executive position right out of school.

The startup takes off because he has the rich guy networking capacity to make it do so, then you're suddenly a millionaire board executive at age 26 like Zuckcuck and the rest of his startup hires.

>have this "socializing experience" that normalfaggots absolutely can't live without

He said, completely oblivious the irony of mocking the social proclivities of others on a message board.

>when the self reference does not stop
wew

You'll forget it anyway.
>t. MIT Class of '03

>flashcards

That's not how it's done, you work in that field doing something to retain the knowledge not rote learning like a mutliplication table. If you want to retain say, complexity theory you could analyze algorithms in your spare time like all those shit Rust libraries or even Julia libraries that nobody has optimized.

Or you would catch up with some journal/google scholar and see what is happening on a regular basis to keep in the loop. Not to mention, sometimes the things we are taught is not so we memorize them, it's to expand our way of thinking. For example Pugh's book Real Analysis. The entire book is an exercise in a new way of thinking not really memorizing analysis lemmas

Stephen wolfram types would do this in a year self taught...

>12 months
impossible unless you literally beg your school to lift any prereq requirements. maybe if you got in with high school transfer credit for all the entry level classes.

He didn't do any of the labs, so it's possible, easy even. All you're doing is homework and tests. Normally your grade is like 20-30% tests and the rest labs where you actually learn what you're doing. For example CMU's OS class, the bulk of the class is creating your own kernel from a specification but if you just did the test, you'd save yourself 3months of work.

Note i'm pretty sure he didn't do the labs, I could be wrong.

The main concern with my cs degree were mandatory coding exercises with too few different dates to get more than a handful of courses accredited in the same semester.
A year is doable if you have previous experience both in the field and in teaching yourself, and no such enforced crap gets in the way of you participating in the exams.

Yes it will. The other guy literally has no idea what he's talking about and the first sentence reveals he knows nothing about learning. Exposing yourself to new patterns is helpful but only because/if you commit new patterns and processes to knowledge. The point of practice is to reinforce your memory. Take a course on learning, like the on coursera, any of the acknowledged ones will start by telling you that the first part of gaining new knowledge is committing it to memory, which is, yes, memorization. You will want to use it (practice) and explore deeper ("understand"?) but that's to retain and commit more in-depth information to memory respectively. Knowledge isn't some sort of "Aha! I understand and now I'm a master!", it's largely cumulative. The more information you retain the better you can reproduce learned mechanisms, the better you can learn and subsequently compose more complex ideas.

I don't know where this idea that you shouldn't memorize anything comes from. A lot of older professors, aka the good ones, are walking encyclopedias who have memorized a lot. Your understanding will wax and wane because you will not retain the full knowledge of everything, memory is composed or recreated, not stored discretely so explicitly trying to commit information to memory and keep it fresh is what you should seek to do. And yes, Anki will help a lot in your studies.

I'm gonna have to disagree with that. Once you figure out something, you don't need to spend time "memorizing" it because it becomes entirely intuitive.
And life isn't an exam. If I want the exact, precise details of something highly complex, I can look up a reference or my notes.

I completed my degree from Berkeley in 5 semesters. If you took out the bullshit humanities requirements, and unneeded Physics/EE requirements, then it's definitely doable.
You could definitely cover one 4 unit CS course in a month of full time studying, and 12 are required for the degree.

The "pay us 4 years of tuition in one year" challenge?