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What courses did you use from CMU and which major?

oxff 4y ago
I basically followed this: http://coursecatalog.web.cmu.edu/schools-colleges/schoolofcomputerscience/undergraduatecomputerscience/#bscurriculumtextcontainer http://coursecatalog.web.cmu.edu/schools-colleges/schoolofco... - but "took" more courses than necessary for my self-learning (I think I read through all of Logic / Language courses, insanely fascinating topic). - I would not recommend a self-learner to follow it rigorously. Like if you are a working programmer, look for material that will help you at your work. Idea is to apply the knowledge. - Some courses have assignments shared so that's great if you have the time check them out too. Definitely great for their database courses.
- debanjan16 4y ago
  CMU courses doesn't have videos, atleast for most of the core courses. Was that a hurdle to your learning?
  - oxff 4y ago
    No, because I dislike videos as a source of information. They usually have absolute top tier lecture notes freely available. Like the Constructive Logic course.
    - debanjan16 4y ago
      Yes, even for their intro course 15-122 the course notes are excellent.
georgecmu 4y ago
Here's a comment I left on a different thread a few months ago, which you may find useful if you're looking for CS contents: --- There are a lot of book recommendations, but I would not focus on books if I wanted to get the equivalent of a solid CS education. Instead I would work through university lecture slides, assignments, and exams -- basically fast forward through a CS undergrad leveraging what you already know. I'm partial to CMU's CS syllabus for obvious reasons, but I find that it's also one of the most open and available resources on the web; i.e. not locked in on an intranet, etc. With pre-existing background in software development the basic syllabus is more than doable in a 3-4 months. There are two sequences below: programming and theoretical fundamentals; you can do them in parallel. Programming: 15-211: Introduction to Data Structures. Used to be in C++; now looks like it's in Java. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjs/121/lectures.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjs/121/lectures.html 15-212: Principles of Programming. Still in ML. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~me/212/schedule.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~me/212/schedule.html | https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/96-212/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/96-212/ (unlocked assignment pages) 15-213: Intro to Computer Systems. I hesitate to recommend this; 90% of the value in this course is in the labs and assignments, so it's difficult to do on one's own, but I would at least go through the slides and try to work through exams. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/schedule.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/schedule.html Theoretical: 15-251: Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science. Used to be Discrete Math with a heavy CS lean; it may have evolved. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15251/schedule.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15251/schedule.html 15-451: Algorithms. Here's a decade worth of lectures, exams and assignments - take your pick: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15451/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15451/ The 2013 course looks pretty complete: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15451-f https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15451-f... Next steps: Since you are interested in VR, etc, you should probably look into the Computer Graphics courses. Note that the undergrad and grad courses are combined; the only difference is the expectations: 15-462: Computer Graphics http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020/ http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020/ Exam problems and solutions are gold: http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020content/exams/finals http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020content/exams/finals... 15-463: Computational Photography http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/courses/15-463/ http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/courses/15-463/ 15-464: Technical Animation http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/syllabus http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/syllabus... http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/assignme http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/assignme... Hope this helps. Good luck!

oxff 4y ago

I basically followed this: http://coursecatalog.web.cmu.edu/schools-colleges/schoolofcomputerscience/undergraduatecomputerscience/#bscurriculumtextcontainer http://coursecatalog.web.cmu.edu/schools-colleges/schoolofco... - but "took" more courses than necessary for my self-learning (I think I read through all of Logic / Language courses, insanely fascinating topic). - I would not recommend a self-learner to follow it rigorously. Like if you are a working programmer, look for material that will help you at your work. Idea is to apply the knowledge. - Some courses have assignments shared so that's great if you have the time check them out too. Definitely great for their database courses.

debanjan16 4y ago
CMU courses doesn't have videos, atleast for most of the core courses. Was that a hurdle to your learning?
- oxff 4y ago
  No, because I dislike videos as a source of information. They usually have absolute top tier lecture notes freely available. Like the Constructive Logic course.
  - debanjan16 4y ago
    Yes, even for their intro course 15-122 the course notes are excellent.

georgecmu 4y ago

Here's a comment I left on a different thread a few months ago, which you may find useful if you're looking for CS contents: --- There are a lot of book recommendations, but I would not focus on books if I wanted to get the equivalent of a solid CS education. Instead I would work through university lecture slides, assignments, and exams -- basically fast forward through a CS undergrad leveraging what you already know. I'm partial to CMU's CS syllabus for obvious reasons, but I find that it's also one of the most open and available resources on the web; i.e. not locked in on an intranet, etc. With pre-existing background in software development the basic syllabus is more than doable in a 3-4 months. There are two sequences below: programming and theoretical fundamentals; you can do them in parallel. Programming: 15-211: Introduction to Data Structures. Used to be in C++; now looks like it's in Java. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjs/121/lectures.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjs/121/lectures.html 15-212: Principles of Programming. Still in ML. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~me/212/schedule.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~me/212/schedule.html | https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/96-212/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/96-212/ (unlocked assignment pages) 15-213: Intro to Computer Systems. I hesitate to recommend this; 90% of the value in this course is in the labs and assignments, so it's difficult to do on one's own, but I would at least go through the slides and try to work through exams. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/schedule.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/schedule.html Theoretical: 15-251: Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science. Used to be Discrete Math with a heavy CS lean; it may have evolved. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15251/schedule.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15251/schedule.html 15-451: Algorithms. Here's a decade worth of lectures, exams and assignments - take your pick: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15451/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15451/ The 2013 course looks pretty complete: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15451-f https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15451-f... Next steps: Since you are interested in VR, etc, you should probably look into the Computer Graphics courses. Note that the undergrad and grad courses are combined; the only difference is the expectations: 15-462: Computer Graphics http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020/ http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020/ Exam problems and solutions are gold: http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020content/exams/finals http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020content/exams/finals... 15-463: Computational Photography http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/courses/15-463/ http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/courses/15-463/ 15-464: Technical Animation http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/syllabus http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/syllabus... http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/assignme http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15464-s21/www/assignme... Hope this helps. Good luck!