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I wish my professor would listen, this is the course i took http://www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/fawcett/handouts/webpages/CSE687.htm http://www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/f

• ewjordan 16y ago
  Yowza, Microsoft all over the place in that course...I weep for the commuter student that runs OS X at home and has no desire (or disk space) to dual boot Windows. That said, the restriction against Boost may be primarily to ensure that people don't rely too much on its features, which would make a lot of those projects almost trivial to solve without actually demonstrating mastery of the underlying concepts. So I suppose it's a worthwhile exercise, but it does bring attention to the main problem with many CS courses, which is that there's never enough emphasis on reusing what other people have already done, whereas when you're programming outside academia, the first thing you should always do is check if someone's already written the code you're about to waste a week on...