Zuckerberg visits Stanford CS106A third year in a row

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by mmzc • 14 years ago

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tinco• 14 years ago

Heh that's interesting, I just watched 106A yesterday to get an idea of how the programming introduction course is compared to my university (utwente.nl).

I actually was a bit disappointed to see that it is very much like our introduction course, except that this teacher is a bit more enthousiastic, and perhaps the course starts at an even more basic level I think.

I think for real CS enthousiasts 6.001 at MIT is much more interesting (and fun) to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY

(it teaches scheme and the lecturer has an awesome way of explaining it)

AustinGibbons• 14 years ago

While not being able to comment on 6.001, at Stanford there is an alternative for ``enthusiasts'' called 106X, which is a sort of more intense version of the 106B class and is taught in C++ I believe. Some students skip A/B and just take X. A, B and X all get really good reviews.

yifanlu• 14 years ago

I took CS106X this quarter and while I enjoyed the lecturer and the assignments, as an "enthusiast", I did not feel challenged. It was more of "let me get some more experience with programming" and not "wow, that's nice to know". The class just teaches some more data structures not covered in CS106A and recursion and touches on inheritance. From what I hear though CS140/143 (os & compilers) seem more interesting to me.

lotso• 14 years ago

106a is meant to make programming accessible to people who aren't or weren't considering being a CS major. I would say it is one of the most well thought and enjoyable classes at Stanford.

Zuckerberg visits Stanford CS106A third year in a row

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