Will I complete the summer work set by my director of studies by closing time?
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I'm a rising second year computer science student at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Our director of studies (https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/university-archives/glossary/director-of-studies, https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/why-cambridge/cambridge-explained ) set us summer work.

The summer work is meant to prepare us for (some of) next year's course(s): https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/part1b.html (this is for last year's second years so our courses might be every so slightly different)

Although not copyrighted, I will not share the worksheet as I have not asked for permission to do so. I will instead give a brief overview.

  1. Compilation: read chapter 1-4 of the dragon book, answer 6 bookwork questions, and write a lexer and parser for a calculator

  2. Digital Communication: Read Computer networks: a systems approach and answer 11 bookwork questions

  3. Computer Design: read Computer Architecture: a quantitative approach and answer 10 bookwork questions

As you can tell, the bulk of the work is in the form of reading. If I end up reading a different textbook from those recommended that covers the same material I will consider that has having completed the summer work as well.

I have heard that this work is difficult and that in previous years very few people completed it.

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With respect to "lexer and parser for a calculator": will you read additional materials like existing calculator implementations on GitHub? (I believe that's the best way to understand what's going on)

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@AnT the textbook should give me the knowledge I mean so I probably won't. I'm trying to spend as little time as possible on this

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@AnT no. Seems slightly complicated

For motivation

Bought some so I have an incentive to complete the work

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