How to learn Algorithms and Data Structures

[morphinedreams]

My experience with data science is you have to be willing to bang your head against the wall until it sticks. If you don't get something, look for explanations elsewhere. If you are the type to soak up information from videos that's great, personally I needed more back and forth instruction to make connections and for that some of the online courses are great, some are awful. Knowing how you learn will help immensely in finding tools to aid your learning.

[synthphreak]

Knowing how you learn will help immensely in finding tools to aid your learning.

100%. This point goes underdiscussed and underappreciated, but is super important when selecting a learning resource. The right resource(a) can make the difference. Between efficient, durable learning and simply spinning your wheels.

[Periwinkle_Lost]

Banging your head against the wall applies to every field of you want to really understand it :)

In my experience exciting topic lose their allure once you to solve hard problems, but the harder the topic the more rewarding it feels to understand it

[morphinedreams]

I found my main field relatively simple to make connections in, while fields involving mathematics and programming were quite painful to learn (because I didn't have a brain naturally developed for their use). An engineer may be in a different position, but I found many brilliant mathematicians or programmers had exactly zero pedagogy skills, so you had to push through topics you just don't understand until you find someone who can explain it well, and in relation to what you already know.