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That.. Sounds graduate-level. How's your PhD?

• avidphantasm 4y ago
  That sort of course was very much par for undergrad courses at CMU when I was taking CS classes there 25 years ago. The OS course was very intense. I wasn’t a major and didn’t have time to take it, but my networks course was of similar rigor (i.e., implement a toy TCP/IP stack).
• rjbwork 4y ago
  I took it during summer, and there were some masters and PhD students in there, but I took it as an undergrad course. It was very intense, 3 hours per day, 3 days per week, and 1.5 hours per day the other two.
  • miiiiiike 4y ago
    Man, I got downvoted into oblivion for my comment, but seriously, yeah, graduate level. That sounds fun. My most intense undergrad class series was one where we soldered together a M68HC11 computer and learned assembly one class, built an OS for it the next, and then turned it into a robot with control software running on our OS-es.
• miiiiiike 4y ago
  This was obviously was a joke. Sounds like there's a range in SQL training that goes from "I've heard of SQL" to "I implemented a PostgreSQL compatible db my Sophomore year."
• Izkata 4y ago
  Not necessarily. One of my undergrad courses (~2008) had us implementing a basic inverted index (think Solr or Elasticsearch), which gave me some insight into Solr that my co-workers didn't have that helped with performance issues. If we had a database course that went that in-depth, I'd've definitely taken it, too.