From scattered notes to a curriculum

Start with the questions

I collect plenty of material. The harder part is turning it into a sequence I can return to. A folder of slides tells me what I have; a curriculum helps me decide what to do next.

The starting question is simple: what should I understand after working through this topic? Once that is clear, I can place the explanations and examples in an order that builds toward it.

1. 01 / Source materialNotes, explanations, and examples.
2. 02 / Clear lessonsOne idea at a time, with room to practise.
3. 03 / A learning pathOrdered, connected, and easy to return to.

Give each idea a home

Each page should focus on a coherent subtopic, with a clear explanation and examples that make the idea concrete. Short enough to return to; complete enough to learn from.

One page. One idea. A clear next step.

An illustration earns its place when it makes a relationship easier to see. A worked solution should explain the reasoning, not just reveal the final answer.

Make the next step obvious

At the end of a lesson, I want to know where to go next. Keeping one ordered outline makes that possible without manually maintaining a web of links.

The same content should be easy to read at my desk or on a train. That means comfortable type, diagrams that remain useful on a small screen, and pages that get straight to the subject.

Start with the sample algorithms curriculum, or jump directly to binary search.