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Re:What class in college did you get the most out of? by rms on Thursday September 20, 2007 @09:13PM (#57727)
I'm curious how many credits your OS course was. I have friends at CMU and OS is a 12 credit class. You build a Unix-like kernel from scratch with a partner. An "A" in OS guarantees a six figure programming job at graduation.
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Re:What class in college did you get the most out of? by far33d on Thursday September 20, 2007 @09:20PM (#57734)
It was 1.5. The lab was .5 credit (a class a credit where I went). It was, as far as I know, the only class in the whole university where the lab was a separately credited part.

Organic Chem - 1 credit.

OS - 1.5

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Re:What class in college did you get the most out of? by kingnothing on Thursday September 20, 2007 @11:22PM (#57796)
So, for both of you, those numbers don't mean much to the rest of us.

How many credit hours is considered a full time load at your schools?

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Re:What class in college did you get the most out of? by rms on Thursday September 20, 2007 @11:50PM (#57805)
At CMU OS is actually a 36 unit course, which can be converted to 12 credits at most USA schools, where 12 credits is full time, 15 credits is normal, and 18 credits is the max.

So the CMU OS course is equivalent to four normal classes.

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Re:What class in college did you get the most out of? by gleb on Friday September 21, 2007 @04:41PM (#58095)
That's impressive. So that's pretty much the only class you take that quarter?
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Re:What class in college did you get the most out of? by rms on Friday September 21, 2007 @04:53PM (#58102)
My understanding was that most CMU students overloaded and took a bunch of classes anyways.

BUT... but I just looked up the class at CMU and it is not 12 credits. It is 4 credits. Which shakes my worldview somewhat, I thought this 12 credit was proof that the CMU CS curriculum was something special.

So either I was mislead by my friend at CMU years ago when this course came up in discussion or more likely, I misunderstood him. Feel free to downmod my post above, it would ideally settle out around 0 points for containing wrong information. Sorry for spreading untruths...

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Re:What class in college did you get the most out of? by far33d on Thursday September 20, 2007 @11:45PM (#57803)
4-5
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