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Introduction to Competitive Programming Contests

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Re: Introduction to Competitive Programming Contests

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Post by kenjackson »

billyjobob wrote: post #2

looks like the course lecturer was still an undergrad student at the time he lectured this course. I wonder if that is common at Stanford or whether he is a Doogie Howser style child prodigy.

If you look at his credentials -- he's pretty well qualified to teach this course. And he is one of the coaches of the Stanford team.

Re: Introduction to Competitive Programming Contests

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Post by mseesquared »

billyjobob wrote: post #2

looks like the course lecturer was still an undergrad student at the time he lectured this course. I wonder if that is common at Stanford or whether he is a Doogie Howser style child prodigy.

As a student who took this last winter, I can assure you it's the latter.

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Post by anonymoushn »

billyjobob wrote: post #2

looks like the course lecturer was still an undergrad student at the time he lectured this course. I wonder if that is common at Stanford or whether he is a Doogie Howser style child prodigy.

This is not common, Jaehyun Park is just a genius.

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Post by Evbn »

billyjobob wrote: post #2

looks like the course lecturer was still an undergrad student at the time he lectured this course. I wonder if that is common at Stanford or whether he is a Doogie Howser style child prodigy.

It is a "student-initiated course", which is basically an extracurricular activity that earns a symbolic pass/fail academic credit. Sort of like a golf or dance class at a state college, but a bit more academic that that, since this is Stanford.

http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/registrar/staff/sics

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Post by angrycoder »

billyjobob wrote: post #2

looks like the course lecturer was still an undergrad student at the time he lectured this course. I wonder if that is common at Stanford or whether he is a Doogie Howser style child prodigy.

If only there was some way to tell. There were a bunch of other words on the page where you read that he was a student. Perhaps there is a way to assemble those words into some sort of order and derive meaning from them.
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