Re: Getting my hands dirty

Posted by Lozminda on
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/Getting-my-hands-dirty-tp4033917p4033932.html

Hi
I don't want to freak you out, but I'd strongly recommend that you 'get ahead of yourself' chapters 7,8 (writing the VM 'translator') are much harder than the previous chapters.
I remember reading somewhere on this forum that Chapter 7/8 took as long as the previous  6 chapters to do. I was bashing one out a week (I'm a self employed construction worker and not a programmer by trade), I think chapter 6 took a month and 7/8 about three (though I did make it more fun for myself by writing that in C) (It's a lot different to C++11! Hoho) (Computer science history is fab too and this book has given me insights into that too).

Now I'm sure you're brighter me (or have more time) but others have described the significant increase in work load as the course goes on (and I agree with them), but with any job, better to get ahead at the beginning and have time to deal with any tricky bits than the other way round.

So in summary, for what it's worth, I think you'd be wise to get ahead if you can !
(It's a great course, even if it does drive me, occasionally crackers !)
Bon courage !