Project Conclusion
Succes Evaluation
I think I met these criteria. Addressing all mistakes is harder to tell, there are probably more mistakes, but I’ve made a good effort to find and correct mistakes. If the criteria is demanding perfection (eventually), then I think that’s too demanding. A better criteria would be to have a session for looking for errors after completing an exercise set, or that I should dedicate at least 45 minutes to looking for errors in each exercise set.
I kind of think that not demanding any correctness, like 8/10 correct exercises, and rather only say “do all exercises”, “read the whole article” and so on, is playing it safe. But some people fail at that, so perhaps it’s fine.
I like the way I did it in the arithmetic trees project, where I kept doing exercises until I had 10 correct ones. Another option could be like “do sets of 10 until 90% success rate”.
It is now 8 days since I started, so the project is a success.
Benefits of the Project
The main benefit was the grammar I learned. What I knew from beforehand (before the exploration project) was mostly just what verbs, nouns, adjectives, prepositions, and pronouns are. I learned:
- what is needed to have a complete thought and,
- the steps to analyze one
- what phrases are
- how groupings of words acts as one thing and how that can be viewed as functions
- that there are two types of conjunctions
- about verbals
- about words based of verbs that define a concept instead of telling of an action happening
- about imperative sentences
- to think more consciously that there can be implied words
- making outlines
- that each word in sentence has meaning and a purpose (a question it answers)
- to make grammar trees
This project was the first non-mini project, so I gain more experience doing projects on CF, and I learn to do structured projects in general. It adds to my public track record of successful projects.
Plan followthrough
I didn’t really do this. I did it for like the middle of the first exercise set (part 2), and I caught one error doing it, but then I forgot. It didn’t seem to cause many errors after that though, I don’t think the check is necessary. I should do better at following through with specific things like this in projects. I should explicitly say why I will stop doing the thing if I think that’s better.
I watched the relevant parts of the Max tutoring videos. I compared answers with forum answers. I did some online research, but not a lot. I could have done that more.
Other notes
I made way more errors than I expected. The exercises were harder than the part 1 exercises. So I spent way more time than I expected to.
I don’t know exactly how much time I spent since my time tracking got muddled with other philosophy activities like watching some of tutoring videos, reading other articles, and reading the forum. I recorded it all under “philosophy”. I can say I did 30 hours of philosophy for the past 8 days. I would estimate that the project took around 20-24 hours then.
The next project I want to do more detailed time tracking and give a summary in the conclusion.
I had one time I got emotional and frustrated doing exercises. I think I eventually handled that fine enough. Otherwise I enjoyed doing the project. I’m happy to complete projects and make progress.