No class on distributed systems?
Stanford CS Curriculum 2021
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#82Given the power tech has over the daily experiences of billions and how many questions of values and ethics it is now directly confronting in society, I'm a little surprised there's just one ethics course and one law course that cover these subjects, and they're electives [1]. We all know much of the learning in engineering is on the job anyways, so the role of formal education is less about particular job skills and…
Embedded ethics.
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#83Thank you so much for this post!! God I wish I had a CS degree, this looks like so much fun! One day, maybe...
Enjoy the knowledge and follow along! Most of the core and other courses are online somehow.
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#84Given the power tech has over the daily experiences of billions and how many questions of values and ethics it is now directly confronting in society, I'm a little surprised there's just one ethics course and one law course that cover these subjects, and they're electives [1]. We all know much of the learning in engineering is on the job anyways, so the role of formal education is less about particular job skills and…
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#85Thank you so much for this post!! God I wish I had a CS degree, this looks like so much fun! One day, maybe...
Enjoy the knowledge and follow along! Most of the core and other courses are online somehow.
Actually if you go looking for these courses, you won't find most of them. You won't even find equivalents. Sometimes you can find Coursera courses which are watered-down and combined versions of multiple courses, but they're usually entirely entry-level and useless.
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#86as a self taught individual I always find it outstanding how much things they are able to pack in a CS degree and how fast people forget all this stuff after graduation. Like how many of your coworkers from top CS schools remember most of the material in their compilers, cryptography, comp bio courses? EDIT: To clarify, I'm not criticizing this approach, I think it's great to expose students to as many subfields as p…
I didn't like it
I'd rather take less courses and focus better on some
on the other hand this approach allowed me to graduate faster
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#87Thank you so much for this post!! God I wish I had a CS degree, this looks like so much fun! One day, maybe...
It indeed looks like fun, but everything's dependent on the people that lecture you
You may meet great ones or terrible ones, just like with everything.
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#88Thank you very much! Did you compile this by yourself?
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#89Given the power tech has over the daily experiences of billions and how many questions of values and ethics it is now directly confronting in society, I'm a little surprised there's just one ethics course and one law course that cover these subjects, and they're electives [1]. We all know much of the learning in engineering is on the job anyways, so the role of formal education is less about particular job skills and…
FWIW, I've never seen any value whatsoever in these ethics classes (note: I'm not saying it's not an important topic, it's extremely important). The hypotheticals and situations presented and discussed in many of them are very similar to yearly mandatory classes we have to take at FAANG (and many other workplaces I assume) and it boils down to having a checkbox that says "I'm not stupid". Real world ethics is much mo…
Also, the engineers are often well aware when something is wrong or dubious.
But there's a difference between knowing that and having the power to do something about it.
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#90Would be interesting to see if someone could make a one-year bootcamp from this classes (not all of them, but cherry picked) and what the result graduates would look like.