Short answer is no. I really doubt how it will benefit if you try to learn 4 years of course in an year. Mostly you will be skimming things most of the time. Le

Short answer is no. I really doubt how it will benefit if you try to learn 4 years of course in an year. Mostly you will be skimming things most of the time. Learning things take time. It's not easy process. If you want to do it to learn CS, but don't worry about completing in an year, then do it. However it will take 2-3 years easily (assuming you have a day job). Is it worth it? Yes, totally. But it may not be useful if you just want to hurry up the whole thing. Your goal should be to learn, not to finish it in an year. I saw same discussion on /r/learnprogramming [0], the top answer reflects my exact same opinion: Given that the MIT challenge was never actually completed with integrity in the first place, it's going to be impossible. Scott Young is a publicist - his goal is to sell, sell, sell. Completing a world-renowned 4-year curriculum in 1 years time is impossible. Young marked his own tests (meaning no independent verification), gave himself a pass threshold of 50% (when the reality for MIT is more like 70%), didn't do his Psets, erased the original correct answers from the tests he found (meaning that he already knew what the answers would be), and his only form of progress comes in his one-man Youtube videos. There's no external validation of his success, other than what we take his word to be. He's a marketer, plain and simple. [0] - http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2vxt6r/the_mit_challenge/ http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2vxt6r/the...