Looking for study tips

[Anonymous Student]

I have been going through all the material in the course and trying my best to understand it. However, I find that particularly with the signals notebooks there is a gulf between material covered in the lecture videos, and the tutorial material surrounding them.

I am unsure of what to focus on more – I want to understand but don’t want to get bogged down in unnecessary details. What would your advice be for how to approach this?

[Simon]

The course deliberately uses multiple modes of learning so you see material from many points of view. You’re right that the SIGNALS notebooks were a bit tough – that’s because we wanted you to see the mathematical way to do signal processing, because eventually you will understand some of this and see that it can be the most simple and direct route to understanding. For now, just getting some intuitive understanding is all you need.

The gap between the videos (pretty pictures but glossing over details) and the notebooks (all the gory details, possibly too much) can be filled by some of the readings and by asking questions in tutorials or here on the forums. Try posting about what you think you understand and ask for confirmation, as well as posting about what you are struggling with.

In Module 3, there is a consolidation tutorial for the SIGNALS material – use that to ask questions about how much you are expected to understand at this point in the course (and how much more by the end of the course).

I hope you are writing your own notes, as you would if we had lectures. Writing your own ‘textbook’ which draws together all the material is my top tip for learning on this course.

Persevere for a week or so, then tell us how you are doing.

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