Professor livestreams entire Computer Science course in 12 hours

Post by musicale » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:11 AM UTC

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I'm generally too smart for my instructors. They are all either teaching by-the-book or actively trying to hold me back from going as fast as I'm capable of. The best courses are the ones that allow you to swap a midterm grade for any missed homework. In all the internships I had, developers solved problems by searching up the error message and trying suggested solutions one-by-one until something worked. Why don't s…

Sounds like you two should stop wasting time with easy courses. If you are as brilliant as you say, there is no way you can't get permission to skip prerequisites or transfer out.

Post by OJFord » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:02 AM UTC

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While the actual videos seem to be ok, the title here is very misleading. 1. As far as I can tell, the author is a professor in the sense "he's good at teaching", but not as in "college/university professor". It matters not because of credentialism (again, quality seems ok), but because it misleads on the intentions of the channel: The channel is very prolific (1+ video per day) and clearly going for maximized views…

The submitter is actually the channel author [1]. All submission are of the form "Professor does incredible thing" [2]. You're clearly good at CS. You don't need to do that, please stop. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=I%20started%20a%20YouTube%20ch... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ryandougherty

Post by legerdemain » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 6:55 AM UTC

musicale wrote: post #11

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Sounds like you two should stop wasting time with easy courses. If you are as brilliant as you say, there is no way you can't get permission to skip prerequisites or transfer out.

You might also consider working in a research lab at your university, where you are likely to find some harder problems. > The best courses are the ones that allow you to swap a midterm grade for any missed homework My recommendation: do the homework - you'll presumably breeze through it if you have mastered the material. If not, it will be a good refresher.

Post by MeinBlutIstBlau » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

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Yet all my instructors tell me that I shouldn't check out from the entire semester even if I'm capable of getting it all done in a week. Too many old professors think I'm a slacker cause I can do all their assigned work in a week at the start as opposed to cramming in the last week because I was lazy. College instructors need to just not care more...

Cramming decreases your ability to recall material. It mostly commits it to a variant of short term memory.

Post by musicale » Wed, Dec 09, 2020, 5:16 AM UTC

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You might also consider working in a research lab at your university, where you are likely to find some harder problems. > The best courses are the ones that allow you to swap a midterm grade for any missed homework My recommendation: do the homework - you'll presumably breeze through it if you have mastered the material. If not, it will be a good refresher.

Homework is easy, but it is busywork. What if I told you to whittle sticks for three hours a day? Homework is a waste of time. You are telling me to waste my time. When I work at FAANG, none of this will matter except the lost time.