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Was CS 1501 the scheme course?
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It was RusCal, if you know what I'm talking about. An attempt to teach programming concepts such as recursion and object oriented programming through pseudocode, heavily lecture-centric since the pseudocode wasn't compil-able. It sucked my ballsack. And so can Russ Shackelford. It was a 4 hour class that took 30 hours of work per week, and the CS guys didn't even have to take the damn thing.


The Civil Engineering department did a statistical analysis on their students, and determined that taking CS 1501 actually lowered students GPAs in their other classes by a point, on average, because 1501 absorbed so much of their time.
 
beej67 said:
It was RusCal, if you know what I'm talking about. An attempt to teach programming concepts such as recursion and object oriented programming through pseudocode, heavily lecture-centric since the pseudocode wasn't compil-able. It sucked my ballsack. And so can Russ Shackelford. It was a 4 hour class that took 30 hours of work per week, and the CS guys didn't even have to take the damn thing.


The Civil Engineering department did a statistical analysis on their students, and determined that taking CS 1501 actually lowered students GPAs in their other classes by a point, on average, because 1501 absorbed so much of their time.
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Was 1501 the CS for non-CS/ECE majors? I took the 1311x course, which was the proto-type scheme CS course, which intended to introduce real programming, rather the pseudocode imaginary coding. It merely introduced me to a new level of hell. I should have taken pseudocode. Funny enough, a few years later, they dropped scheme, as it is the most atrocious coding language in the world.
 
Was 1501 the CS for non-CS/ECE majors?
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Yes. And it was quite simply the lamest class ever. By the time you were done you had spent four months of your life learning every nuance of an elaborate, powerful computer language that you can't program **** on, because it doesn't actually exist. Complete waste of time and effort. If they at least taught Visual Basic I could have USED WHAT THEY TAUGHT ME FOR SOMETHING.

It's like if your first year of med school was learning about the physiology of Muppets.
 
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