I took 824 last Spring and the labs were often terrible because of the level of debugging necessary (but very informative and well made). In particular it was b

I took 824 last Spring and the labs were often terrible because of the level of debugging necessary (but very informative and well made). In particular it was bad for those without much C++ experience like myself. I think the difficulty of testing and worrying more about small bugs rather than the concepts of distributed systems was a common complaint and it's awesome to see it being changed. This class was also taught by rtm the semester I took it.