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Is the estimated hours realistic? 43 hours for part 1 and 89 for part.

by mnsc 3y ago

jobs_throwaway 3y ago
Sounds about right from my experience. I did this in a 10-week academic quarter spending ~10-15 hours a week on the projects. Might be a bit more time if you have little background or lack someone to explain things to you if/when you get stuck. The compiler and OS are by far the most arduous parts.
brailsafe 3y ago
Much like any software, it depends on how quickly you get the hang of it, how many blocks of good time you can allocate, and what your existing exposure is to digital logic and circuits. I'm on the final chapter of the hardware section after probably 5 months, where the last 2 months haven't been nearly as focused and it showed immediately in my progress, and overall I feel like my success rate looks like a bell curve; confusing at first and slow, then not confusing and more productive, and then the CPU took me like a month of taking periodic goes at it. Now at the assembler, I feel like this the easier part of any sequential programming involved in the latter half of the course, and it'll ramp up significantly. 89 seems plausible, if you get lucky, have good combinatorial logic exposure already, and can really dedicate a decent portion of most days to it, but I'd probably say that's a generous minimum.
dbrueck 3y ago
It'll vary a lot by your background and how much you play around along the way. If you're pretty familiar with most of the concepts and stick to the requirements, you can do the whole thing in 40-50h. OTOH, if you're encountering new concepts and really want to internalize them and/or if you take fun detours then I'd plan on 100-150h or more.
- bmitc 3y ago
  It also varies by how professional you provide your solutions. If you start wanting to test things, give proper errors, etc., it will start increasing the time needed by quite a lot.
vintermann 3y ago
I only did part 1 so far, but it felt like less than that. Whether that was because of experience, or because it was fun enough that it felt shorter, I don't know!

Is the estimated hours realistic? 43 hours for part 1 and 89 for part.

by mnsc 3y ago

Is the estimated hours realistic? 43 hours for part 1 and 89 for part.

Sounds about right from my experience. I did this in a 10-week academic quarter spending ~10-15 hours a week on the projects. Might be a bit more time if you have little background or lack someone to explain things to you if/when you get stuck. The compiler and OS are by far the most arduous parts.

brailsafe 3y ago

Much like any software, it depends on how quickly you get the hang of it, how many blocks of good time you can allocate, and what your existing exposure is to digital logic and circuits. I'm on the final chapter of the hardware section after probably 5 months, where the last 2 months haven't been nearly as focused and it showed immediately in my progress, and overall I feel like my success rate looks like a bell curve; confusing at first and slow, then not confusing and more productive, and then the CPU took me like a month of taking periodic goes at it. Now at the assembler, I feel like this the easier part of any sequential programming involved in the latter half of the course, and it'll ramp up significantly. 89 seems plausible, if you get lucky, have good combinatorial logic exposure already, and can really dedicate a decent portion of most days to it, but I'd probably say that's a generous minimum.

dbrueck 3y ago

It'll vary a lot by your background and how much you play around along the way. If you're pretty familiar with most of the concepts and stick to the requirements, you can do the whole thing in 40-50h. OTOH, if you're encountering new concepts and really want to internalize them and/or if you take fun detours then I'd plan on 100-150h or more.

bmitc 3y ago
It also varies by how professional you provide your solutions. If you start wanting to test things, give proper errors, etc., it will start increasing the time needed by quite a lot.

vintermann 3y ago

I only did part 1 so far, but it felt like less than that. Whether that was because of experience, or because it was fun enough that it felt shorter, I don't know!