Continue reading Chapter 10 Rings of Artin, with an emphasis for now on sections 1, 3, 4, 5.
See last week's comments.
Last year's first practice midterm is a good source of explicit exercises, working with the ring of integers and with the polynomial ring in one variable. You are responsible for all of the problems found there; I will cover the remaining needed material in this week's classes. I am also preparing solutions to some of these problems.