[sudoroom] Higher Ed Hacking

Max B maxb.personal at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 20:28:10 CET 2013


Yup it does seem like the first day will be the 22nd. I'm fairly 
certain that all of the slides will be online. To get a feel for the 
class, you can check out last semester's website:

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs164/

On Mon 14 Jan 2013 01:15:36 AM PST, J.D. Zamfirescu wrote:
> Cool. If you're up for going, I'd definitely tag along to CS 164.
> Unfortunately my travel schedule will cause me to miss lectures 2 & 3,
> but maybe I can get a copy of the slides from somewhere, or maybe
> there will be a video online.
>
> First lecture is 1/22?
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Max B <maxb.personal at gmail.com
> <mailto:maxb.personal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The compilers class (164) is Tuesday Thursday 9:30-11:00am with a
>     discussion section later in the day on Thursdays. It does seem to
>     have become "full", but the lecture itself is in 306 Soda, which
>     is "Hewlett Packard Auditorium":
>
>     http://california.eecs.__berkeley.edu/iesg/rooms/__306Soda/photos.asp
>     <http://california.eecs.berkeley.edu/iesg/rooms/306Soda/photos.asp>
>
>     I think there would be plenty of room there to sit in without
>     being burdensome. One of the classes I took last semester was
>     "full" and although there were supposed to be maybe 70 people in
>     the class, there couldn't have been more than 30 in class every
>     day. I've definitely been trying not to add to the TAs work load
>     because I know how difficult it is for them already, so I was kind
>     of expecting to play it by ear in terms of how much more
>     integrated I could get into the rest of the class. My experience
>     last semester was that the TA's were really excited to have
>     someone in their discussion sections/class who wanted to be there
>     and was excited instead of just fulfilling a requirement. They
>     were all really accommodating and super generous. In the end,
>     though, all that I was doing was sitting in on lectures, sitting
>     in on discussions, occasionally raising my hand to answer a
>     question, and doing the homeworks on my own time. There wasn't
>     much that I really needed from anybody, so I felt like one more
>     body in the room wasn't really adversely affecting anyone. I
>     suppose we can show up and see how it feels?
>
>
>     On Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:06:55 PM, J.D. Zamfirescu wrote:
>
>         I would totally be up for CS 164 - but it looks full. Max, was
>         that a
>         problem in the past when you attended?
>
>
>
>         On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Garrett Robinson
>         <garrett.f.robinson at gmail.com
>         <mailto:garrett.f.robinson at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:garrett.f.robinson at __gmail.com
>         <mailto:garrett.f.robinson at gmail.com>>>
>
>         wrote:
>
>             Nice one, Max! I've always wanted to take a compilers
>         class. When
>             are the class sessions?
>
>             On Jan 10, 2013 12:30 PM, "Max B" <maxb.personal at gmail.com
>         <mailto:maxb.personal at gmail.com>
>             <mailto:maxb.personal at gmail.__com
>         <mailto:maxb.personal at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>                 Hey all,
>
>                 Most of you probably don't really know me--I've only
>         been by
>                 sudoroom on occasion, but I wanted to put this out
>         there and
>                 see if anyone else would be interested:
>
>                 Last fall I sat in on a few CS classes at UC Berkeley.
>         I've
>                 always been kind of a half-assed programmer and I realized
>                 that if I ever wanted to be more serious about it,
>         there were
>                 some gaps in my knowledge base that needed filling in.
>         So last
>                 semester I sat in on "EE 122 Networking", "CS 61C Machine
>                 Structures", and "CS 161 Computer Security". It turns
>         out that
>                 without actually ever really having to come into
>         contact with
>                 any professor, I was able to coordinate with TAs in these
>                 classes and participate in all of the labs, do all of the
>                 homeworks, and do all of the projects (albeit they
>         were group
>                 projects I was doing by myself....). I never had to apply,
>                 register, pay or deal with any of the other
>         administrative BS
>                 that normally accompanies higher ed.
>
>                 I'm planning on sitting in on a few more classes this
>         semester
>                 and wanted to see if anyone else was interested. So
>         far I'm
>                 thinking "CS 162 Operating Systems and System
>         Programming",
>                 and "CS 164 Programming Languages and Compilers." The full
>                 class schedule is available here:
>
>         http://schedule.berkeley.edu/
>
>                 I would also be super excited if anyone was interested
>         in the
>                 classes I took last semester and I could help guide them
>                 through the process of coordinating with TAs and also
>                 potentially be a tutor. Also, UCB offers classes in
>         all sorts
>                 of fields, so perhaps that
>                 sociology/chemistry/physics/____anthropology/dance
>         class you've
>
>                 always been thinking about getting around to?
>
>                 Max
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