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Lesson

Three paths, forty-odd lessons, live sessions every fortnight, and a room where the questions get answered.

  1. 01The routes through this
  2. 02Students helping each other

Curriculum

The routes through this

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  1. Path 1

    Foundations

    The twelve lessons everything else assumes. Start here even if you think you can skip it.

    3 lessons · 1h 21m

  2. Path 2

    Applied practice

    Twelve lessons taking the foundations into real work, with an exercise at the end of each.

    3 lessons · 2h 42m

  3. Path 3

    Going deeper

    Eight longer lessons on the parts that only matter once you are competent.

    2 lessons · 1h 24m

Depth

Going deeper 4: reading somebody else’s work

Depth50 minMembers only

Fifty minutes, and the lesson Reviewed students get the most out of.

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Students helping each other

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  • New: two lessons added to the applied path

    Dr Amara O.Instructor·21h·Questions

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  • YM

    Stuck on lesson 4 — I think I have misunderstood step three entirely

    Yusuf M.·3h·Questions

    3 replies

    12 likes

  • A members-only post

    Femi A.·1d·Work in progress

    2 replies

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  • A members-only post

    Katya L.Moderator·2d·Finished

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    A members-only post

    Nina G.Moderator·3d·Study groups

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  • Office hours reminder: bring the thing that is not working rather than a description of it. We get through about twice as many that way.

    Ben H.Instructor·5d·Questions

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