I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months

Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by TuringNYC on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:51AM (#25468205)

I'm very impressed with your tracking of effort on each course. How did you track the hours? If you were doing two courses at a time, how did you split your time tracking?

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by miguelrochefort on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:08AM (#25468409)

I've been tracking every minute of my time (to a 15-minute resolution) for the past 24 months using Google Calendar. It's part time-blocking, part time-tracking.

Here's what my "Study" calendar looks like: https://i.imgur.com/BBLeYmy.png

In green are events I created manually. In orange are predicted study sessions based on tracking data from ActivityWatch [1], which tracks my desktop, laptop, phone, and even my Chromecast usage. I get roughly 80% coverage with it, and 100% coverage with manual time tracking.

In fact, I built a "WGU Time Tracker" for my capstone project, which attempted to automatically classify my ActivityWatch data into study sessions using NLP, machine learning, and heuristics. I might write a post about it.

[1] https://activitywatch.net/

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by chrisdhal on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:04AM (#25468367)

He specifically says:

"During my time at WGU, I focused on a single course at a time and made sure to complete it before starting a new one."

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