Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.
(Not taken as snarky) I would believe so. I never went to school, but started working when I was in 8th grade. Didn't even learn algebra or any advanced math beyond multiplication, which I have since regret at several occasions. I'm surrounded by amazingly talented computer scientists all day long and we thrive on each others' knowledge. For instance, a mathematician friend of mine once gave me the book "Fermat's Las…
Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.
Interesting that you mentioned Georgia Tech (BS '06, MS '09), as I was thinking that it's disappointing that no systems or compilers classes are required anymore. The new Threads curriculum doesn't (or didn't when I last paid attention to it) require anything nearly this complicated. I have a friend who graduated under Threads without having taken CS2200 (Systems and Networks) or ECE2030 (Intro ECE). He's a talented…
I'm not a fan of the threads program either. It is too easy to not learn any 'hardcore' CS with it. I took Devices and Information Internetworks. Doing some like Media and People (very popular for reasons to be mentioned), you didn't have to take CS2200, CS3251, or ECE2030/1. Granted I didn't take any compilers/VM classes, but I did take several low-level classes as I feel like it's hard to truly understand CS basics without understanding how a computer works from the base up. I think the switch to allowing easier tracks is to get more people interested, but at the cost of a degree which is not truly well rounded.
Really depends on your school. I went to a little podunk college (graduated in '02) with a tiny CS department and we did not do anything nearly this complex. You went to a top 10 CS school and did stuff like this. I don't have any real data but I imagine the situation is probably the same these days.
I'm a Canadian and we did something exactly like this as well for a junior level class.
Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.
Amusing to see other gatech people here on here. I remember taking a systems class as well either 2nd or 3rd year (CS '03). Pretty much exactly what this is implemented all in C.
I talk to my other friends at CS schools and lately some of them don't nearly go into as much depth.
Really depends on your school. I went to a little podunk college (graduated in '02) with a tiny CS department and we did not do anything nearly this complex. You went to a top 10 CS school and did stuff like this. I don't have any real data but I imagine the situation is probably the same these days.
I'm a Canadian and we did something exactly like this as well for a junior level class.
Where did you go? Because UofT, UBC, McGill, Waterloo, etc. are up there in the rankings with GATech.
Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.
I did not have to implement a virtual machine to get my degree at New Mexico Tech, but I did have to write a compiler with an x86 backend, and some Linux drivers. It depends on the school, but Georgia Tech is well known for a reason.
Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.
Funny, but no, not everywhere. I did a project like that, though, in my undergrad years, but it wasn't a assignment, just for fun.
Instead of doing something like this, they just made us memorize the x86 instructions and their nuances. I shudder every time I think about it.