First of all, I have social support in terms of others working on the same thing, yay!
Second of all, I have no formal background in order theory, booo.
The first few chapters were an informative read, and chapter 6 has taken me several weeks just to fully understand, I haven’t even tried the exercises.
If full time professionals like myself and the author recorded the amount of time a book required to work through, as well as their related background beforehand, we’d all have an easier time choosing our approach to continuous education.
How does the format work (especially if you don’t grok the material by/past a meeting)? How did you find the others? I’ve never had a technical reading group get even half way before. I’d like to join for the next book, if possible!
This post is massive, but also the first explicit discussion I’ve seen of many of these issues. I’m doing a reading group on denotational semantics ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1404132.Denotational_Semantics ) , how long will this book take me?
First of all, I have social support in terms of others working on the same thing, yay! Second of all, I have no formal background in order theory, booo.
The first few chapters were an informative read, and chapter 6 has taken me several weeks just to fully understand, I haven’t even tried the exercises. If full time professionals like myself and the author recorded the amount of time a book required to work through, as well as their related background beforehand, we’d all have an easier time choosing our approach to continuous education.
Note, there’s a 30 minute presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ylf6Bg93hE This also expands on it: https://lockywolf.net/2020-10-29_scheme-story.html
How does the format work (especially if you don’t grok the material by/past a meeting)? How did you find the others? I’ve never had a technical reading group get even half way before. I’d like to join for the next book, if possible!