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Also: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

by oxff 4y ago

HPMOR 4y ago
Woah... I'm in this class right now. We <3 Prof. Clarkson and his textbook!
- 0xFEE1DEAD 4y ago
  please tell him to sell merch. I'm a Michael R. Clarkson super fan and desperately want to show my support in real life. Because of him I learned ocaml and for this I'm forever grateful.
  - HPMOR 4y ago
    He used to sell merch in previous semesters, there's lots of 3110 sweatshirts around campus. Hopefully he brings it back this semester!
    - nanna 4y ago
      Naive European here. Are you saying that in America academics sell merchandise for their modules? And students, despite having paid exorbitant sums to sit them, go and buy them?
      - HPMOR 4y ago
        No, the merchandise is sold at cost. The class is so popular with students, that students want a token to remember it and so they buy clothing embroidered with the class name.
      - oarsinsync 4y ago
        I think that's likely, yes. It's easy to distance yourself from the cost of tuition when it's paid for through a loan (with predatory interest rates, and no escape through bankruptcy). Meanwhile, the swag is bought with 'your' money, to support the artist (and good teachers are artists, in the most positive sense of the word).
      - nequo 4y ago
        FWIW I've never heard this happen before. But some courses are very popular with students. I think Harvard's CS50 hands out yellow rubber ducks to students for free.[1] I see now that you can buy them online, too.[2] Besides what the sibling post is saying about tuition being earmarked separately from merch, your peers wearing/hauling around course-related merch could also strengthen your impression that the course is good. Therefore you give better course evaluations, which helps your lecturers. (Lecturers are adjunct faculty which is generally a bad gig.) [1] https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2022/ https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2022/ [2] https://www.theharvardshop.com/products/ddb50rubberducks https://www.theharvardshop.com/products/ddb50rubberducks
zumu 4y ago
Randomly found this earlier this year. I loved this course. Making this content available freely to anyone anywhere truly makes a difference. Cheers to Prof. Clarkson!

Also: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

by oxff 4y ago

Also: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

HPMOR 4y ago

Woah... I'm in this class right now. We <3 Prof. Clarkson and his textbook!

0xFEE1DEAD 4y ago
please tell him to sell merch. I'm a Michael R. Clarkson super fan and desperately want to show my support in real life. Because of him I learned ocaml and for this I'm forever grateful.
- HPMOR 4y ago
  He used to sell merch in previous semesters, there's lots of 3110 sweatshirts around campus. Hopefully he brings it back this semester!
  - nanna 4y ago
    Naive European here. Are you saying that in America academics sell merchandise for their modules? And students, despite having paid exorbitant sums to sit them, go and buy them?
    - HPMOR 4y ago
      No, the merchandise is sold at cost. The class is so popular with students, that students want a token to remember it and so they buy clothing embroidered with the class name.
    - oarsinsync 4y ago
      I think that's likely, yes. It's easy to distance yourself from the cost of tuition when it's paid for through a loan (with predatory interest rates, and no escape through bankruptcy). Meanwhile, the swag is bought with 'your' money, to support the artist (and good teachers are artists, in the most positive sense of the word).
    - nequo 4y ago
      FWIW I've never heard this happen before. But some courses are very popular with students. I think Harvard's CS50 hands out yellow rubber ducks to students for free.[1] I see now that you can buy them online, too.[2] Besides what the sibling post is saying about tuition being earmarked separately from merch, your peers wearing/hauling around course-related merch could also strengthen your impression that the course is good. Therefore you give better course evaluations, which helps your lecturers. (Lecturers are adjunct faculty which is generally a bad gig.) [1] https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2022/ https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2022/ [2] https://www.theharvardshop.com/products/ddb50rubberducks https://www.theharvardshop.com/products/ddb50rubberducks

zumu 4y ago

Randomly found this earlier this year. I loved this course. Making this content available freely to anyone anywhere truly makes a difference. Cheers to Prof. Clarkson!