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This is a good example of a CS project you would do at Stanford and wouldn't get assigned at your local university.
by bluedino 7y ago
This is a good example of a CS project you would do at Stanford and wouldn't get assigned at your local university.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI talk to people who think a CS degree has the same content and the same level of rigour and challenge everywhere. Absolutely baffles me.
- 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y agoIs that true for literally any degree from a top 5 university?
- TwoBit 7y agoWhat makes you so confident saying this?
- chrisseaton 7y agoBecause I’ve been to multiple universities myself and I know it to not be true from my own eyes. You can also just go to any university website yourself and compare their syllabi and see how different they are.
- adamnemecek 7y agoYou can easily do this on your own.
- shuckles 7y agoI think the spirit of the post is correct: the quality of instructors can dramatically increase the quality and relevance of course content in the curriculum. Stanford courses tend to produce new, interesting assignments that other schools crib. Same applies to all the top engineering departments. My friend tried to get a CS degree at Pepperdine and the curriculum was 15 years out of date. To students who are new to the field, it is hard to figure out where to start even if they could do it independently.
- hyperbovine 7y agoIf "you" are 19 and can do this on your own, then chances are you are a CS student at Stanford, or a peer institution.
- adamnemecek 7y agoI don't understand your point.
- dfee 7y agoCan you work us through what you don’t understand?
- bawolff 7y agoSo? You can do anything on your own given enough effort and discipline.
- danmg 7y agoNo. We implemented a 3d software frame buffer pipeline at my non-Standford, non-"elite" computer science school, in C and with no dependencies other than the standard library, for our computer graphics class.