Learning update

While I'm bogged down by the swampy marshland that Combinatorial Game Theory inhabits, I have tried making progress in other fields.

I've struggled through Head First's Object Oriented Analysis and Design - not so much because of an inability to understand the content (Head First books are rarely too tough to comprehend), but because of the verbosity of its content. The book features redundancy in abundance, and at times feels like it is for kids ages 8-10. Moreover, my aversion to the topic of Design Patterns made it even tougher to plow through the book. To my great satisfaction, a few comments (answers) on Quora stated that the whole idea of "Design Patterns" had been reduced to a fad and its importance, overplayed. This was supported by providing a few snippets from the book Coders at Work.

I've also been working on the field of data science, analysis and machine learning. Progress in this is easier, as learning is easier to move ahead when you are learning compared to when you are reading (not true if the book is interesting). For this, I've been following a few online courses on Coursera, EdX and Udacity.

I also learned about PAC files today, which unfortunately, I cannot get to work with Firefox (a file that works in Chrome...).

I think I need to blog a bit more regularly about any work I do, if I am to use this as a tool for discipline and motivation.