TITLE: Baby Rudin: Advice
QUESTION [18 upvotes]: I am working through the first chapter of Principles of Mathematical Analysis and I am wondering how many of the twenty exercise problems I should do.  I think the first ten are very to moderately easy (with 7 as an exception), but the next ten are much more difficult.  I am of course trying to do all of them, but how many should I be content with doing successfully?  Also, how many of the exercises would a college course using the book require?  I am not trying to "get out of work" as I am doing this independently anyway, I just want to know what you would recommend.
Thanks

REPLY [12 votes]: It looks as though Berkeley has posted their homework based on Rudin, to answer the question "what would a college course require?" The answer appears to be ~10 questions per chapter.
Personally, I make a list of the more straightforward questions for which learning the matter just requires repetition. These I carry in a notebook and do during meetings.
I then skim for more interesting problems, of which there are generally only one or two per section (based on my completely subjective definition of "interesting"). These I do when I have free time.
In summary: I do whatever interests me, and if the next section is too confusing, I go back and do more.