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"An acm day is a day at which you do nothing but pracitce, typically spending 16 hours in practice and sleeping/eating/doing other stuff in 8 hours. For sure, this is not reasonable for our daily lives, but we need to define such a day as it is suitable for feeling progressive."

I don't get it. If it is agreed upon that this acm day is not reasonable or practical, why do we still need to define it and why is it 'suitable for feeling progressive' ?

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I was curious too, so I took a closer look.

The beginner/"pupil" curriculum is 28 "days", or 448 study-hours.

Conveniently for comparison, a college course is generally 15-16 weeks long. A 4-credit course would be 4×16 hours classroom hours, so a 4-credit course with 3 study hours per classroom hour would be 12×16 hours.

So the beginner curriculum is equivalent to two and a half of the hardest 4-credit courses in your degree program.

The intermediate/"specialist" curriculum is 37 "days".

I would imagine the "acm day" is both to not scare away the potential student and to actually make designing curricula of that magnitude feasible. (I used to write K-12 curricula professionally, and it's no small task.)

Possibly the author means that an acm day is not generally practical to do regularly on a day-to-day basis?

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