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<h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">Learning Materials</h2>
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<h3><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">General Structure and Evaluation</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family: book\ antiqua, palatino;">The class is divided into ten lectures, each on a different topic. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book\ antiqua, palatino;">The first lecture will be released on Wednesday, June 10, at 16:00 UTC, and a new lecture will be released each subsequent week. The final lecture will be released on Wednesday, August 12, at 16:00 UTC.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book\ antiqua, palatino;">At the end of each lecture, you will find a subsection labeled "Homework", with a list of problems pertaining to that lecture. </span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">(The exception is Lecture 8, which has no homework; that's because Lecture 8 is a bit harder than the rest of the class, and we thought it shouldn't count towards your final grade.) Your final grade for the class is determined by your answers to homework problems.<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Following the release of a given lecture, you will have two weeks to complete the homework. </span><span style="line-height: 25.6000003814697px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">You will only have one chance to answer each homework problem. So take your time and think before you click. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book\ antiqua, palatino;">Your final grade is determined as follows: your lowest homework grade is dropped and the remaining eight homework grades are averaged, with all of them weighted equally. You'll need a final grade of at least 80% to pass the class.<span style="line-height: 25.6px;"></span></span></p>
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<h3>Homework vs. Exercises</h3>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">In addition to the homework problems at the end of each lecture, you'll find problems scattered throughout the lectures. These other problems are <strong>exercises</strong> and your answers to exercises will not count towards your final grade. <br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">You shouldn’t stress about exercises. But you <em>should</em> give them a go. Thinking about these problems is an essential part of your learning. Every exercise comes with an answer. We highly recommend that you have a look at the answers.<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Another reason to work on the exercises is that they are good preparation for homework problems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Some of exercises are quite hard. But, as I said, don’t stress out about them. We felt free to make them hard because we knew they wouldn<span style="line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">’t be graded.</span></span></p>
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<h3>Text and Videos</h3>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">The most important part of the class is the <strong>written text</strong>. That’s what you’ll have to focus on if you want to understand the material.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">We've also put together a large number of videos:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">In some videos you'll see me using a <a href="https://www.lightboard.info/" target="[object Object]">lightboard</a>. I use these videos to go over the key concepts of the relevant lecture. Although they overlap with the written text, I sometimes go about things in a slightly different way, in an effort to give you an alternate perspective.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Some videos are segments of lectures from the residential version of this class, which I teach at MIT. These videos often cover similar material to what you'll find in the text, but the material is sometimes presented a bit differently because I gave the lectures several years before I finalized the text.<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Some videos are extras. The 24.118x team made them because we think you might find them interesting, or fun. (Sometimes they are interviews with experts in the field; sometimes they are introductions to a topic; sometimes they are animations made to help explain a point.)</span></li>
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<p><span face="book antiqua, palatino" style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">You don’t need to watch the videos to learn the material in this course. Think of them as resources that could be used to enhance your 24.118x experience.</span></p>
<p><span face="book antiqua, palatino" style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">The text of the class is based on my book <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brink-Paradox-Highlights-Intersection-Mathematics/dp/0262039419/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=brink+of+paradox&qid=1559917743&s=gateway&sr=8-3" target="[object Object]">On the Brink of Paradox</a> </em>(MIT Press, 2019). The book contains very similar material to the class, but you can try to get a hold of it you prefer reading from a printed page to reading from a screen.</span></p>
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