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The dryness of intro courses is underrated. I took CS101 in college (in C++) and it was painfully slow and boring and I could learn just as quickly from the boo
by jamestimmins 3y ago
The dryness of intro courses is underrated. I took CS101 in college (in C++) and it was painfully slow and boring and I could learn just as quickly from the book.
Contrast with my bro who studied ME where they had a toy robot competition in the first month.
- benjaminwootton 3y agoIndeed. A sprinkle of some of the applied stuff in year 1, (e.g. Software Engineering, AI, Computer Vision) and it might have held my interest. Nearly 20 years later I think that would have been for the best.
- TillE 3y agoOur CS101 course (or maybe 102?) involved building a clone of the board game Carcassonne in Java, which was pretty fun.
- jamestimmins 3y agoIn mine we built a minimal deposit system that let people add/withdraw money. Yours sounds more fun for sure. Where was this?