This is a straightforward and doable course. To do well,
please consider the following.
1. Read the textbook (available on reserve in the maths and Stats
library) ahead of the lectures, then attend the lectures and listen
to the explanations provided. There are 36 (1 hour) lectures and 10
chapters in the book. The plan is to cover one chapter every week,
and use the final two weeks to catch up (in case we fall behind
schedule, and we will, as a couple of chapters will take longer
than 2 hours to cover) and for a review.
2. Following each lecture, learn the material in the lecture notes
(and any extra material or examples provided in the lectures). Make
sure that you understand and can reproduce all the statements made.
Do that on a regular basis, following every lecture.
3. Solve all assigned exercises. Make sure that you
understand what you are doing by figuring out how the
solution would change if the exercise changes a bit.
4. Think about the material. Try to "see the wood for
the trees", or, if you wish, "to see the bigger picture".
You will find that the course has very few (but deep) basic new
ideas. Everything else in the course follows from these.