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Computer 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.
When you move up a level or two, you'll see that making games can be pretty fun!
If you are searching for challenges, then whats the point of limiting yourself to school level?
I would appreciate anything that's challenging and helps me improve my programming skills.
If you are searching for challenges, then whats the point of limiting yourself to school level?
I haven't graduated out of university yet. I would appreciate anything that's challenging and helps me improve my programming skills.
It will significantly improve your understanding of programming langs, how some of them suck, what is possible, etc, etc.
Edit: noticed that it’s not just about programming. Then it’s complex analysis and theoretical physics at MIPT. Most computer science problems felt simple compared to that stuff.
Probably 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.
I didnt enjoy it at all nor found it very useful, meanwhile practice was really useful and satisfying
A 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.
I really had to work for that class, but the payoff was tremendous.
I'm not sure I would call it the most challenging class, but it's the one where the most amount of people failed to learn anything. If I had to guess then 90% of the students (or more) ended up not being able to do anything with prolog.
I haven't seen any other class that had such an abysmally low rate of successful learning. I think the only knowledge most people took away from this class is to not use prolog.