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Man I'd love to have a two semester course where I could work on a project and get advice from Brian Kernighan. I hope all the Princeton CS students understand

• glitchc 6y ago
  Be careful what you wish for... My point: His interests may not align with yours.
  • tasogare 6y ago
    That’s often the case in research. For my first 6-8 months in my new lab I pretty much spend most of my mental energy finding how to combine my own research interests while fitting in the lab (i.e. do something that my prof would approve). It’s mostly solved now, in part by doing some side project secretly, but the big take away is that politics is actually an important part of how research is done in real life.
• strgcmc 6y ago
  Oh, the vast majority of students definitely are well aware. His classes are in high demand and regularly fill up quickly and spill into wait-lists, come registration time. It's been about a decade since I attended, but IME I felt there were many undergraduate courses that were competently taught by overqualified luminaries in their fields (meaning, for those examples, you could probably get the same quality education from a much cheaper institution), but Prof. Kernighan's classes stood out as among the 2-3 truly unique and special highlights of a Princeton CS education. OTOH, there's nothing quite like disappointing professors in their own classes while studying their own eponymous algorithms (sorry Prof. Tarjan... it's not you, it's me).