If you would recommend one or two classes to anyone,
what would they be?
What class in college did you get the most out of?
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Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#2I've had three full years in college now and I was thinking how sad it was that I couldn't think of a single class that I would actually recommend to anyone. But then I remembered that I got 3 credits for going to China for two weeks and writing 25 pages about Lenovo with 3 other people. I would recommend that class.
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#3I would not recommend any class, but surely I would recommend a few teachers, the kind of teacher that let you think by yourself, that inspires you to create something new.
The kind of teacher that teaches you something but encourages you to find a better way.
I think that's the point. Classes are as great as teachers make them! So find a great teacher and you'll have your best class ever.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#4I would not recommend any class, but surely I would recommend a few teachers, the kind of teacher that let you think by yourself, that inspires you to create something new. The kind of teacher that teaches you something but encourages you to find a better way. I think that's the point. Classes are as great as teachers make them! So find a great teacher and you'll have your best class ever.
The right friends do this too.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#5Linearity: You need a friendly helpful teacher for this one. The class comes in use when you need to solve multiple iterations of a particular calculation. For instance, triangulation is a cinch now that I've taken Linearity.
English literature: It's fun to read the classics and compare them to how politicians and blogs cherry pick and bastardize quotes.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#6I was always in the library, because I had no interest in what I was being taught, and (I didn't realise it then, but) I couldn't bear being in a roomful of people for lectures. I wish I'd done something like an Open University (is there a US equivalent to this organisation?) course instead.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#7Operating Systems.
And if you have a chance to TA, do it. You learn a lot more by teaching than you do by being taught.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#8This class involved bantering about nothing and and absolutely everything at the same time. It was a small class (usually 3 unique friends that I had just met). And the format was twice a week/discussion. I think it was called: Late-night/post party/stupid drunk/socio-political seminar 101. Take it. Seriously.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#9Operating Systems. And if you have a chance to TA, do it. You learn a lot more by teaching than you do by being taught.
I'm curious how many credits your OS course was. I have friends at CMU and OS is a 12 credit class. You build a Unix-like kernel from scratch with a partner. An "A" in OS guarantees a six figure programming job at graduation.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#10Operating Systems. And if you have a chance to TA, do it. You learn a lot more by teaching than you do by being taught.
I'd also recommend the other two of the "big three" computer science electives - Compiler Design, and Computer Graphics. You can skip most of the rest of the CS major, but no matter how good a programmer you think you are, you'll get something out of those 3 courses.
And I'll second the bit about TAing, though my experience was in physics rather than CS. Being a physics lab TA is cool...you get to play with all sorts of stuff. (Heck, taking physics labs is cool, though the lab reports are not so cool.)