Lifelong Learning: Textbook/Course Reviews

The aim of this project is to become a lifelong and self-sustained learner through the use of available resources. This project was first inspired by Scott Young's MIT Challenge, a challenge where Scott aimed to simulate much of MIT's coursework and education through MIT OCW. Originally, I was seeking to do the same thing however I felt the extremely fast pace left something to be desired. For me I did not feel that I had the depth of knowledge and confidence in my knowledge as I would have liked. I felt that although lectures were great, I often had lingering questions that may have been adjacent to the video and not covered in a lecture environment.

Since then the project has evolved into something else. The goal of this project is to not only get a breadth of knowledge from whatever fields I would like to learn about, but to also have the depth of knowledge and practice to be able to execute what I have learned. To make this review both useful to myself and anyone that may read this, I am going to be doing Textbook reviews. I plan to go through at least 50% of the problems through the textbooks that I use and will give a review on things I thought the book did well, things I think it is suited best for, and things that I learned from it and where I can apply it.

This format of this project type will allow me to look back on things that I have learned and also be able to document it. It will also let any of you reading this see what textbooks may suit you best and what the pros/cons of the textbook and why it may be useful. I hope that this project not only gives useful information to people who are interested in learning more; but perhaps inspires people who would like to get more education/knowledge but do not know a way to do so or feel that they can't.