I want to improve my skills further so anything that's challenging and not limited to programming courses.
Ask HN: What is the most challenging programming course you have taken?
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#2I took an advanced perl class at the local JC back in 2003.
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#3Knock yourself out:
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#4I would not call it challenging, but it was a fun and interesting experience.
Learning functional programming through the CS 3110 course at Cornell University
Here is the link:
https://courses.cs.cornell.edu/cs3110/2021sp/textbook/
The OCaml part is free, well structured and does not take long to complete.
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#5Computer Graphics back at Virginia Tech. No libraries, build the 3d yourself. I learned a lot in that class, including the fact that I did not want to make games for a living.
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#6Denthor’s tuts, aged 11
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#7I guess the first one ?
A course being challenging is not a good indicator of its quality I think.
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#8If you are searching for challenges, then whats the point of limiting yourself to school level?
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#9Probably compiler class focused on the theory aspect of it.
It was much more interesting/useful the other compiler class I took which actually had me create a parser+compiler for a made-up language. Still somewhat challenging to think in that way, as it's not the usual way to process data.
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#10A Masters’-level security course at UT Austin. The first assignment was “implement AES and RSA from scratch, without Bignum, and on RISC-V in an emulator.” Just… why.
Spoiler, I did not succeed at that, but neither did most of the class.