So what was the best class you took in college? Not the hardest or easiest, but the one that changed your life?
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CS 211 at Cornell. Not so much because of anything specific I learned in it, but because I liked it so much that it seemed evidence I was suited for programming.
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CS 212 (functional programming) takes the prize for some kind of inverse case where it was the least appreciated at the time but the most valuable in the long run, after the long, winding road back to understanding wtf I was actually taught and why
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+1 I had Graeme Bailey, the semester I took it.
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Graeme Bailey was terrific
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It was CS212 for me. It defined computer science for me as a way of thinking distinctly different from anything I have experienced till then.
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CS 411 introduced me to formal semantics. That set me on a wild path that ended up with me working on a reductive definition of causality. Which is bittersweet, because it a profoundly important problem, but I failed at convincing people and I had to switch out.
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I took CS 211 (now called 2110) too. Maybe something has changed but I was a bit frustrated. Felt like the class was more about how things work in OO lang rather then why they are the way they are. (Feel like people maybe learned this in AP CS but I was outclassed by them)
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I took it in about 1984. It was not about OO then. It was a Knuthy sort of course about algorithms and data structures.
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Two classes: At UCLA, "Existentialism & Phenomenology" with Angela Davis and a Poli-Sci class with Hobbs, Rees and Scoble. Mind exploded wide!
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