[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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