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Re:Master’s Degree in Computer Science by chucksmash on Thursday May 05, 2022 @11:42PM (#31281065)
One reservation I have when I read about these MS programs is that they often sound like they will be heavy on group work. I see where that is valuable to prepare people just starting off in their career, but as someone who has been doing "group work" for the past 10 years irl, I'm not really interested in the mock UN version of having a day job.

Have your classes been built around group projects, or can you go it alone if you're doing it for kicks? I'd love to spend some time studying CS and end up with something to show for it, but I'm not interested in group-work-as-workplace-prep.

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Re:Master’s Degree in Computer Science by llaolleh on Thursday May 05, 2022 @11:56PM (#31281146)
The only time I did group work was for the Deep Learning class (2-4 people) and my group members were excellent. Other than that one, no group work for me.

The key is to pick classes that are hard, and form groups early. People that reach out earlier usually have their shit together.

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Re:Master’s Degree in Computer Science by ativzzz on Friday May 06, 2022 @12:16AM (#31281255)
You can pretty easily build a solid curriculum that involves 0 group projects. Some classes have optional groups
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