Philip Greenspun: Improving Undergraduate Computer Science Education

Re:Philip Greenspun: Improving Undergraduate Computer Scienc... by aston on Thursday August 23, 2007 @05:05PM (#45847)

Obviously Greenspun's a webapp veteran. That doesn't mean his class doesn't need advertisement. As I alluded to in the previous post, it's not particularly popular at MIT. And to my knowledge, it's not a class like SICP that's been taken up at universities around the world.

I think at best Greenspun's inclusion of those factoids was meant to imply some causation (that his class helps people get jobs). Maybe he was just name checking for the fun of it. Either way, I suspect most of the alums who took his class and then went on to get jobs at GOOG and MSFT would have been able to without it.

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Re:Philip Greenspun: Improving Undergraduate Computer Scienc... by jmzachary on Thursday August 23, 2007 @10:15PM (#45981)

Isn't 6.001 (SICP) a required class whereas 6.171 (SEIA) optional? I did not attend MIT, so I could be wrong.

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Re:Philip Greenspun: Improving Undergraduate Computer Scienc... by aston on Friday August 24, 2007 @12:06PM (#46221)

You're right, 6.001 is a required course within the major. I'm not citing its internal popularity, really (although folks love the class). A number of other universities have similar courses offered, whereas I haven't heard of any other 6.171-like classes.

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