University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School

Re:University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder ... by niuzeta on Friday November 01, 2013 @04:07PM (#6656042)

As far as I remember UW is one of the only universities in the continent to offer a course to build an actual real-time operating system, from the ground up. I learned so much in that course. Co-ops rule, but for non-coops the so-called "big three" courses are pretty famous as well. I've had countless interviews where an interviewer asked me if I'd taken at least one of the three courses.

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Re:University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder ... by amackera on Friday November 01, 2013 @04:14PM (#6656089)

I took the Comp Eng version of that course (in contrast from the SE/CS version which is less hardcore IMO).

That course taught me how to make software.

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Re:University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder ... by tezka on Saturday November 02, 2013 @08:03AM (#6658939)

"Please refrain from feeding RT students. We are NOT monkeys." The sign on the real-time lab's window used to read.

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Re:University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder ... by mingfli on Friday November 01, 2013 @05:15PM (#6656487)

Plus you got to play with trains.

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Re:University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder ... by usernew1817 on Friday November 01, 2013 @08:31PM (#6657534)

when they're actually working...

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