status 20120831

Finished 6-1.1, again slowly, painfully I am picking this up again.  The rest is
a matter of endurance.

Browse reading: (2nd time) 159/1144

Exercises up to 6-1.2. (Skipped Chapter 4 and 5)

Revisit : 4.2-{3-5}, 4-4.3 after section 4.5, revisit Chapter 4 and 5
when time allowed.

Checking : up to P2.1

Needs write up: 2-3.7 (nice solution using merging), P2.1c, 3-2.4,
3-2.8, P3.1

Exercises checked: 2.1-2, 2.1-3, 2.2-{1,4}, 2.3-{3,7}

Exercises which are finished but not on paper: 1.1-2, 1.2-2, 1.2-3,
P1-1, The whole Section 4.4 except 4.4-3, 4.5-{1,3}, P4.4(a-c), P4.6b,
5.1-{1,2}, whole Section 6.1, 6.2-{1,2,4,5,6}, 6.3-1, 6.4-1 whole
Section 7.1, 7.2-{1-5}, whole Section 7.3 and 7.4.{2,3}, 8.2-1, 8.3-1,
8.3-4, , 10.1-{1-4,6,7}, 10.2-{1,2,6,7}, 12.1-{1,2,3,4}
12.2-{1,2,3,5,6},12.3-{2-4} 12.4-4, P12-1a, P12.4(a),13.2-2, 15-1.1,
15.1-3, 15.3-3, 15.5, 17-1.1, 18.1-1, 18.1-2, 18.2-1, 21-1.1, 21-1.2,
22-1.{1-3,6,7}, 23.1-1 and 23.1-3, P30-1{a,b}, P30-2b, 30-1.1,
31-1.{1-7}, 32.1-{1,2}, A.1-{1,2,3,4,5,7}, C.1-{2,4,5,7,8,9,14},
C.2-{1,2,4,5}, C.3-{1,2,10}, all in D.1. and D.2-2.

Slowly, painfully started again.....

It has been closed to a year I didn't read CLRS again.  I would say that affects my work significantly.   I  am drifted back to a kind of shallow thinking when I tried to work out a solution.

For now, things are okay but this is a bad habit.   In general, it's always important to think deep about a solution.

There is also something hard to describe - it is a kind of yearning of wanting to learn more in algorithms.   For example, I realized I didn't really learn heap the data structure that well.   Or  ....... I don't think I grok it.

Why do I have such a yearning suddenly?  I guess it's because I am back to learning.

After my study in Spanish is finished, I decided to pick up guitar (btw, it's awesome!) and try to learn something about acting.   Whenever you go to look at people with other skills and they excel in it, you start to ask what you really know in yours.

One thing which impressed me, when you talk with very experienced musicians who might be playing since their childhood, they always tell you that they still have something to learn.

So when I ask myself "Am I good enough as a technical person?".   The answer to myself is that: "I am actually not that good.  I still need to learn."

I think that's why I am reading again.   Not because I want to get a job in a big company, not because I want to get a medal, not because I want to prove or any stupid reason.   It's purely a pursuit of skills.

For this time though, I have deliberately skipped Chapter 4 and 5 and get started in Chapter 6, there are a lot of things I need to think through.   Right now, I just finished the first chapters of Chapter 6, those are pretty easy if that's your second read.

33_P

2nd Browse Read Again

Second Browse read Section 6.3.  I plan to do the exercise 6.1. Update pointers.

Browse reading: (2nd time) 159/1144

Exercises up to 6-1.1. (Skipped Chapter 4 and 5)

Revisit : 4.2-{3-5}, 4-4.3 after section 4.5, revisit Chapter 4 and 5 when time allowed. 

Checking : up to P2.1

Needs write up: 2-3.7 (nice solution using merging), P2.1c, 3-2.4, 3-2.8, P3.1

Exercises checked: 2.1-2, 2.1-3, 2.2-{1,4}, 2.3-{3,7}

Exercises which are finished but not on paper: 1.1-2, 1.2-2, 1.2-3, P1-1, The whole Section 4.4 except 4.4-3, 4.5-{1,3}, P4.4(a-c), P4.6b, 5.1-{1,2}, whole Section 6.1, 6.2-{1,2,4,5,6}, 6.3-1, 6.4-1 whole Section 7.1, 7.2-{1-5}, whole Section 7.3 and 7.4.{2,3}, 8.2-1, 8.3-1, 8.3-4, , 10.1-{1-4,6,7}, 10.2-{1,2,6,7}, 12.1-{1,2,3,4} 12.2-{1,2,3,5,6},12.3-{2-4} 12.4-4, P12-1a, P12.4(a),13.2-2, 15-1.1, 15.1-3, 15.3-3, 15.5, 17-1.1, 18.1-1, 18.1-2, 18.2-1, 21-1.1, 21-1.2, 22-1.{1-3,6,7}, 23.1-1 and 23.1-3, P30-1{a,b}, P30-2b, 30-1.1, 31-1.{1-7}, 32.1-{1,2}, A.1-{1,2,3,4,5,7}, C.1-{2,4,5,7,8,9,14}, C.2-{1,2,4,5}, C.3-{1,2,10}, all in D.1. and D.2-2.