>watch MIT videos, pretty easy to follow >do the exercises,

>>8509066
MIT needs to push diversity.

People complained their problems were too sexist and racist because women had trouble solving them and were feeling 'raped' by the problems.

>>8509070
What?...

>>8509073
MIT problems used to be hard but then women complained they were being raped by their difficulty so they put in friendly problems.

Putnam problems are for a competition. In such cases, the only way to get a distribution that doesn't have several people getting full marks you need to make the problems hard enough that almost nobody can solve them all. Given that it's a college-level competition, the people participating will be very clever so your problems need to be very difficult.

Teaching exercises are made with a different mindset. Everyone doing the course should be able to do most of the exercises after some thought. They're made to make sure you can do the things you're expected to be able to do, not to make a distribution.

>>8509083
Oh, that explains it all...
I always felt it was because they wanted to show the basics and if you wanted it the real thing you'd have to take a course. Kinda wish they were more challenging.

>>8509066

Were the materials published in the same year?

>>8509083
This better be a meme. A university can not possibly be this cucked

>>8509128
This.

>>8509174
Of course it's a meme.

>>8509066
Do you not know what the Putnam is?