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TusharRawat — 2009-11-09 11:35:00

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	+ * ''But you can the other way around, ECS 188 in place of ECS 190. 190 is probably easier though.'' - ["TusharRawat" TR]

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TusharRawat — 2009-11-03 22:10:06

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- * ''Took it with Prof. Matloff in Spring '09. Excellent class, highly recommend. The class focussed on Python and R. --["TusharRawat" TR]''	+ * ''Took it with Prof. Matloff in Spring '09. Excellent class, highly recommend. The class focused on Python and R. --["TusharRawat" TR]''

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TusharRawat — 2009-11-03 22:09:42

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	+ * ''Took it with Prof. Matloff in Spring '09. Excellent class, highly recommend. The class focussed on Python and R. --["TusharRawat" TR]''
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	+ * ''Had Prof. Farrens for this. Projects were very challenging but class is amazing if you like Architecture. Projects same as above --["TusharRawat" TR]''
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	+ * ''I took this class with Professor Rogaway. His expectations are very clear: Do the reading, the quizzes are easy. Participate in discussion. Oh there's a paper and project at the end and a final quiz as well. A good complement to more difficult classes. --["TusharRawat" TR]'' +

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-15 23:34:36

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- * ''Took this class with Professor Sean Peisert and turned out a lot easier than I thought. Took the class P/NP and now regret it. It's a lot of work, but it really isn't all that bad in terms of difficulty -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]''	+ * ''Took this class with Professor Sean Peisert and turned out a lot easier than I thought. The projects are a lot of work, but it really isn't all that bad in terms of difficulty. Tests are pretty straightforward-- ["Users/SebastianNg"]''

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-15 23:32:13

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- * Class is offered Spring 2009	+ + * Class is offered Spring 2009 + + * ''Took this class with Professor Sean Peisert and turned out a lot easier than I thought. Took the class P/NP and now regret it. It's a lot of work, but it really isn't all that bad in terms of difficulty -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]''

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-01 21:51:29

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- * ''This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmosphere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"]" -	+ * ''This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmosphere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"]''

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-01 21:50:49

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-01 21:50:26

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- * ''Took the class with Professor Amenta. It was a fun class. You do three projects with different groups each time. You have three different visualization projects that deal with different types of Scientific Visualizations. --["Users/SebastianNg]''	+ * ''Took the class with Professor Amenta. It was a fun class. You do three projects with different groups each time. You have three different visualization projects that deal with different types of Scientific Visualizations. --["Users/SebastianNg"]''
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- * ''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead.'' -- ["Users/KenBloom"]''	+ * ''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead. -- ["Users/KenBloom"]''

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-01 21:49:42

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- * ''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead.'' -- ["Users/KenBloom"]	+ + * ''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead.'' -- ["Users/KenBloom"]''

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-01 21:48:49

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	+ * ''I don't think you can take this class in place of ECS 188 anymore'' +

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-01 21:47:05

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- * ''I would skip this course and just start with 152B. This is not a big programming class. It's more focused on solving high school algebra word problems. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]''	+ * ''I would skip this course and just start with 152B. This is not a big programming class. It's more focused on solving high school algebra word problems and memorizing terms. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]''
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- * "Took the class with Bernd Hamann in Winter of '07. I remember the times when I was in the lab from opening to closing during the weekend to get work done. It's a lot of work, but it's pretty fun if you're into that sort of stuff. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]"	+ * ''Took the class with Bernd Hamann in Winter of '07. I remember the times when I was in the lab from opening to closing during the weekend to get work done. It's a lot of work, but it's pretty fun if you're into that sort of stuff. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]''
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- * "This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmosphere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"]"	+ * ''This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmosphere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"]"
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- * "Took the class with Professor Amenta. It was a fun class. You do three projects with different groups each time. You have three different visualization projects that deal with different types of Scientific Visualizations. --["Users/SebastianNg"]"	+ * ''Took the class with Professor Amenta. It was a fun class. You do three projects with different groups each time. You have three different visualization projects that deal with different types of Scientific Visualizations. --["Users/SebastianNg]''

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-01 21:44:20

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	+ * ''I would skip this course and just start with 152B. This is not a big programming class. It's more focused on solving high school algebra word problems. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]''

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SebastianNg — 2009-06-01 21:36:42

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	+ * ''Took this class with Professor Filkov. Really interesting, but also really hard too. Probably the hardest class I have taken in the CS department -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]'' +
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	+ * "Took the class with Bernd Hamann in Winter of '07. I remember the times when I was in the lab from opening to closing during the weekend to get work done. It's a lot of work, but it's pretty fun if you're into that sort of stuff. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]" +
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- * This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmosphere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"] - * Took the class with Professor Amenta. It was a fun class. You do three projects with different groups each time. You have three different visualization projects that deal with different types of Scientific Visualizations. -["Users/SebastianNg"]	+ + * "This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmosphere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"]" + + * "Took the class with Professor Amenta. It was a fun class. You do three projects with different groups each time. You have three different visualization projects that deal with different types of Scientific Visualizations. --["Users/SebastianNg"]"

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SebastianNg — 2009-04-10 22:44:30

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- * ''More like... laziest professor. He's great for this class, but you can so tell he's just being lazy. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]''

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wujianqiu — 2009-04-04 19:40:47

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- "ECS 220 " - It was taught by Franklin when I took it. Only theory on complexity, very,very heavy stuff and tough reading.	+ ''ECS 220 '' - It was taught by Franklin when I took it. Only theory on complexity, very,very heavy stuff and tough reading.

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wujianqiu — 2009-04-04 19:40:18

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	+ + "ECS 220 " - It was taught by Franklin when I took it. Only theory on complexity, very,very heavy stuff and tough reading.

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TusharRawat — 2009-03-26 15:34:30

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	+ * ''A straightforward class on the theory and implementation of databases. The language of choice seems to have moved from Oracle to MySQL, although it may depend on the year taught or professor. A lot of students outside of purely Engineering and Computer Science take this course. -- ["TusharRawat" TR]''

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TusharRawat — 2009-03-26 15:29:10

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- * "More like... laziest professor. He's great for this class, but you can so tell he's just being lazy. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]"	+ * ''More like... laziest professor. He's great for this class, but you can so tell he's just being lazy. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]''

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TusharRawat — 2009-03-26 15:27:36

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- ''ECS 132 - Probability and Statistical Modeling for Computer Science'': First offered in Winter 2008, this class is the CS equivalent to STA 131A. This class provides an introduction to popular models of probability and statistics. Students start at the basic one-variable discrete to multivariate continuous models. This class (since 2009) is a requirement for ECS majors; an elective for CS majors.	+ ''ECS 132 - Probability and Statistical Modeling for Computer Science'': First offered in Winter 2008, this class is the CS equivalent to STA 131A; this class provides an introduction to popular models of probability and statistics. Students start at the basic one-variable discrete models and progress to multivariate continuous models. This class (since 2009) is a requirement for ECS majors; an elective for CS majors.

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TusharRawat — 2009-03-26 15:26:49

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- * Norm Matloff teaches this course. One of the harder courses offered by the CS department, it's completely worth it. --["TusharRawat" TR]	+ * ''Norm Matloff teaches this course. One of the harder courses offered by the CS department, it's completely worth it. --["TusharRawat" TR]''

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TusharRawat — 2009-03-26 15:25:43

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- ''ECS 132 - Probability and Statistical Modeling for Computer Science'': New course offered for Winter 2008, taught by Norman Matloff.	+ ''ECS 132 - Probability and Statistical Modeling for Computer Science'': First offered in Winter 2008, this class is the CS equivalent to STA 131A. This class provides an introduction to popular models of probability and statistics. Students start at the basic one-variable discrete to multivariate continuous models. This class (since 2009) is a requirement for ECS majors; an elective for CS majors. + * Norm Matloff teaches this course. One of the harder courses offered by the CS department, it's completely worth it. --["TusharRawat" TR]

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SebastianNg — 2009-02-23 23:18:37

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SebastianNg — 2009-02-23 21:03:13

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	+ * "More like... laziest professor. He's great for this class, but you can so tell he's just being lazy. -- ["Users/SebastianNg"]"
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	+ * Took the class with Professor Amenta. It was a fun class. You do three projects with different groups each time. You have three different visualization projects that deal with different types of Scientific Visualizations. -["Users/SebastianNg"]
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	+ * Professor Bernd Hamann taught it winter of 2008.

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StephenHudson — 2009-02-19 16:10:12

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	+ + * ''Somewhat time-consuming, occasionally challenging but mostly just getting used to producing a full-size program that actually works. With Ken Joy, he gives a big scary lecture at the beginning of the quarter that makes it seem like nobody will pass the class without working in large groups to conceptualize the problems, but it turns out not being to difficult. Expect to spend 5-10 hours per week writing and debugging. Although it's probably a good idea to go to lectures, you can get by without attending if you know how to use Google and Wikipedia. --["Users/StephenHudson"]''

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StephenHudson — 2009-02-19 16:03:52

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- * ''Simple programming. If you have any programming experience, the book is mostly a reference and is where all the homework comes from. Unless programming concepts are new to you, this is a class that you don't really need to work that hard on. An hour or two once a week for homework, but no conceptually challenging problems at all. Lectures are fairly straightforward coverage of the textbook, so you can get some of the homework out of the way in class. --["Users/StephenHudson"]''	+ * ''Simple programming. If you have any programming experience, the book is mostly a reference and is where all the homework comes from. Unless programming concepts are new to you, this is a class that you don't really need to work that hard on. An hour or two once a week for homework, but no conceptually challenging problems at all. Lectures are fairly straightforward coverage of the textbook, so you can get some of the homework out of the way in class. --["Users/StephenHudson"]''

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StephenHudson — 2009-02-19 16:03:25

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	+ * ''Simple programming. If you have any programming experience, the book is mostly a reference and is where all the homework comes from. Unless programming concepts are new to you, this is a class that you don't really need to work that hard on. An hour or two once a week for homework, but no conceptually challenging problems at all. Lectures are fairly straightforward coverage of the textbook, so you can get some of the homework out of the way in class. --["Users/StephenHudson"]''

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TusharRawat — 2009-01-06 13:24:02

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	+ * ''I second this. -- ["Users/TusharRawat" TR]''

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TimJ — 2009-01-03 17:57:13

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- ''ECS 60 - Data Structures and Programming'': Replaces ECS 110 effective Fall 2007. According to ["Sean Davis"], the course content is the same as 110. Indeed, many of his handouts during the Fall 2007 quarter were still titled "ECS 110."	+ ''ECS 60 - Data Structures and Programming'': Design and analysis of data structures for a variety of applications. Trees, heaps, searching, sorting, hashing, graphs. Extensive programming. This course replaced ECS 110 in Fall 2007. According to ["Sean Davis"], the course content is the same as 110. Indeed, many of his handouts during the Fall 2007 quarter were still titled "ECS 110." + + * ''Conceptually, this class was very straight-forward for me. The quarter was pretty easy until we got to the challenge programs, where we had to beat his times. I probably spent about 60 hours on both challenge programs. This is the first time I really took advantage of his 5-minute-program-fix-time during OH. I also learned more in this class than any other lower division CS class. Our main programs were writing a Sudoku solver, implementing a BTree, and two challenge programs, one relating to the stock market (matching sellers to buyers and vice versa), and one relating to network flow. --["Users/TimJ"]''
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- ''ECS 110 - '''Replaced by ECS 60'''. Data Structures and Programming'': The next logical extension in the "basic programming" track from ECS40, 110 is the software-side gateway to most upper division ECS courses. The course covers using basic data structures such as arrays, stacks/queues, trees, hash tables for applications like sorting and graph problems. Taking this class with ["Sean Davis"] is a lot harder than with any other instructor, as his programs are a lot harder and he grades submitted programs based on their running time. Nevertheless, those who survive Davis usually recommend it as a positive experience in hindsight.	+ ''ECS 110 - Data Structures and Programming'': The next logical extension in the "basic programming" track from ECS40, 110 is the software-side gateway to most upper division ECS courses. The course covers using basic data structures such as arrays, stacks/queues, trees, hash tables for applications like sorting and graph problems. Taking this class with ["Sean Davis"] is a lot harder than with any other instructor, as his programs are a lot harder and he grades submitted programs based on their running time. Nevertheless, those who survive Davis usually recommend it as a positive experience in hindsight. This class was replaced by ECS 60 in Fall 2007.

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TimJ — 2008-12-30 00:11:41

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	+ ''ECS 165A - Database Systems'': Database design, entity-relationship and relational model, relational algebra, query language SQL, storage and file structures, query processing, system architectures. + + ''ECS 165B - Database Systems'': Advanced database systems: object-oriented and object-relational database systems; distributed and multidatabase systems; advanced database applications: Web-based database access, data warehouses. + + ''ECS 166 - Scientific Data Management'': Relational databases, SQL, non-standard databases, XML, scientific workflows, interoperability, data analysis tools, metadata. +

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TimJ — 2008-12-08 17:46:45

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- * ''I took this class with Professor Franklin. The class consisted of discussions, weekly write-ups, and a term paper/presentation. The discussion were very enjoyable, the readings interesting, and the grading straight-forward. Recommended if you just need a break from the other CS classes.-- ["Users/TimJ"]''	+ * ''I took this class with Professor Franklin. The class consisted of discussions, weekly write-ups, and a term paper/presentation. The discussions were very enjoyable, the readings interesting, and the grading straight-forward. Recommended if you just need a break from the other CS classes.-- ["Users/TimJ"]''

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TimJ — 2008-10-30 14:36:05

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	+ * ''This class was very educational, but time-consuming. You develop a more advanced understanding of UNIX, learn C++, and get an introduction to data structures. Following coding standards is a must in this class-- you get points taken off for not commenting your code and the likes. Overall a good class, takes lots of time, but not overly difficult-- ["Users/TimJ"]''
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- * I enjoyed this class. There is more work than is expected of a 3 unit class, but Earl is a nice guy. Easy to talk to. He provided plenty of feedback on the paper and presentation that we gave at the end of the quarter. Thumbs up, - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"]	+ * ''I enjoyed this class. There is more work than is expected of a 3 unit class, but Earl is a nice guy. Easy to talk to. He provided plenty of feedback on the paper and presentation that we gave at the end of the quarter. Thumbs up, - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"]'' + * ''I took this class with Professor Franklin. The class consisted of discussions, weekly write-ups, and a term paper/presentation. The discussion were very enjoyable, the readings interesting, and the grading straight-forward. Recommended if you just need a break from the other CS classes.-- ["Users/TimJ"]''

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TimJ — 2008-10-20 12:33:59

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	+ * ''Overall an interesting course, although I felt like I didn't get much practical experience. Like Tushar said, the course material hasn't changed much, but Gusfield is a very smart man. A good primer course in bioinformatics, though I would recommend taking BIT 150 after CS 124 to gain more practical knowledge. -- ["Users/TimJ" TimJ]''

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AndrewHarrison — 2008-10-07 13:45:43

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	+ * ''I'm going to have to agree with Tim here, though I'm sure it depends upon what teachers you have. Together though, the two are great preparation for CS 40 and 60 (of course, being requirements). I also had Gusfield for 30 and Filkov for 20 (took it at the same time as Tim). I found Filkov to be an enjoyable and effective teacher --["Users/AndrewHarrison"]''

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JasonAller — 2008-09-09 18:07:10

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JasonAller — 2008-08-31 12:05:01

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- * ''I am an ECS major, and I found the ENG 17 and EEC 180a to be quite painful. I also found that EEC 180a was almost completely a repetition of things I had learned in ECS 154a and ECS 154b (see below). But EEC172 was a lot of fun, and practically requires these circuits courses as prerequisites. Given the choice again, knowing what I know now. I probably would have chosen CS instead. -- ["KenBloom"]''	+ * ''I am an ECS major, and I found the ENG 17 and EEC 180a to be quite painful. I also found that EEC 180a was almost completely a repetition of things I had learned in ECS 154a and ECS 154b (see below). But EEC172 was a lot of fun, and practically requires these circuits courses as prerequisites. Given the choice again, knowing what I know now. I probably would have chosen CS instead. -- ["Users/KenBloom"]''
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- * ''This was a quarter-long torture chamber. Honestly, I didn't feel like I learned much of anything, and classes were boring and difficult. I heard it was easy if you get Sniegowski as a teacher, but Filkov was difficult simply because he was not good at teaching the material. The only thing useful I've gained from it was learning Big-Oh notation.. most of the other things seem to just be intros to upper divisional classes on algorithms and such. Overall I think it could have been a useful class, but I really did not like my teacher. -- ["GiladGurantz"]'' - * ''I have to disagree (having taken it from Filkov), as I found the class comparatively interesting, if he did perhaps go a bit too slowly over some of the material. Since it was intended as an intro into the math useful for CS, I found it succeeded at that. -- ["AndreyGoder"]'' - * '' Don't take it with Amenta. Many many people had problems with her. I know everyone that was in that class did not do well that i have talked to. I took it last year. It wasn't that it was hard to learn, but she had problems teaching it. I still don't know how to do inductive proofs corrently. get it with dean snegowski.--["MarkMcDermott"]'' - * ''This class is exceedingly easy, especially if you take it ''after'' ECS 30. Dr. Patrice Koehl is easily the best teacher to take this course with. On a side note if anyone has trouble with concepts in this course I'd be happy to help them out. --["TusharRawat"]'' - * ''I have to disagree with the above comment. ECS 30 is absolutely irrelevant to this course-- no relation whatsoever. That being the case, I took CS 20 and CS 30 concurrently. If you haven't taken CS 30, don't worry. --["TimJ"]'' - * ''Did you take 30 with Davis? 20 with Koehl? If so, I'm sorry you feel that way. I found the classes, with those professors, very helpful in that order. Also, just noticed, but since you took them concurrently, doesn't my comment not apply to your situation...? --["TusharRawat" TR]'' - * ''I took 30 with Gusfield and 20 with Filkov. I took the classes concurrently, meaning I did not take 20 ''after'' 30 like you said. In general, 20 has nothing to do with 30... 30 is a programming course, while 20 is a discrete math (theory) course. You do no programming in CS 20, and no extensive algorithm work in CS 30. No need to apologize, I'm not attacking or anything, just putting it out there for the future students! --["TimJ"]''	+ * ''This was a quarter-long torture chamber. Honestly, I didn't feel like I learned much of anything, and classes were boring and difficult. I heard it was easy if you get Sniegowski as a teacher, but Filkov was difficult simply because he was not good at teaching the material. The only thing useful I've gained from it was learning Big-Oh notation.. most of the other things seem to just be intros to upper divisional classes on algorithms and such. Overall I think it could have been a useful class, but I really did not like my teacher. -- ["Users/GiladGurantz"]'' + * ''I have to disagree (having taken it from Filkov), as I found the class comparatively interesting, if he did perhaps go a bit too slowly over some of the material. Since it was intended as an intro into the math useful for CS, I found it succeeded at that. -- ["Users/AndreyGoder"]'' + * '' Don't take it with Amenta. Many many people had problems with her. I know everyone that was in that class did not do well that i have talked to. I took it last year. It wasn't that it was hard to learn, but she had problems teaching it. I still don't know how to do inductive proofs corrently. get it with dean snegowski.--["Users/MarkMcDermott"]'' + * ''This class is exceedingly easy, especially if you take it ''after'' ECS 30. Dr. Patrice Koehl is easily the best teacher to take this course with. On a side note if anyone has trouble with concepts in this course I'd be happy to help them out. --["Users/TusharRawat"]'' + * ''I have to disagree with the above comment. ECS 30 is absolutely irrelevant to this course-- no relation whatsoever. That being the case, I took CS 20 and CS 30 concurrently. If you haven't taken CS 30, don't worry. --["Users/TimJ"]'' + * ''Did you take 30 with Davis? 20 with Koehl? If so, I'm sorry you feel that way. I found the classes, with those professors, very helpful in that order. Also, just noticed, but since you took them concurrently, doesn't my comment not apply to your situation...? --["Users/TusharRawat" TR]'' + * ''I took 30 with Gusfield and 20 with Filkov. I took the classes concurrently, meaning I did not take 20 ''after'' 30 like you said. In general, 20 has nothing to do with 30... 30 is a programming course, while 20 is a discrete math (theory) course. You do no programming in CS 20, and no extensive algorithm work in CS 30. No need to apologize, I'm not attacking or anything, just putting it out there for the future students! --["Users/TimJ"]''
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- * ''First two weeks spent on how to use Unix so that you can do your programming assignments in it. Then most of the course just goes through the basics of programming: loops, conditional statements, etc. etc. Decent difficulty for beginners.. I started early on assignments and had no problems at all, although it seemed that non-CS majors would wait and suffer a little. By the time pointers are introduced some people start having problems, but overall if you're a CS major this class should not be a problem (at least, if you're taking it with Sniegowski). -- ["GiladGurantz"]''	+ * ''First two weeks spent on how to use Unix so that you can do your programming assignments in it. Then most of the course just goes through the basics of programming: loops, conditional statements, etc. etc. Decent difficulty for beginners.. I started early on assignments and had no problems at all, although it seemed that non-CS majors would wait and suffer a little. By the time pointers are introduced some people start having problems, but overall if you're a CS major this class should not be a problem (at least, if you're taking it with Sniegowski). -- ["Users/GiladGurantz"]''
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- * ''I agree with the above. A good lecturer is Sean Davis. He's a hard teacher, but you'll know your stuff at the end. As long as you put a decent effort into the programs you won't really need to study for tests. I studied 30 minutes total and got a 91% on the final - and I was not the best in the class, by far. Easy class compared to ECS 40. --["TusharRawat"]''	+ * ''I agree with the above. A good lecturer is Sean Davis. He's a hard teacher, but you'll know your stuff at the end. As long as you put a decent effort into the programs you won't really need to study for tests. I studied 30 minutes total and got a 91% on the final - and I was not the best in the class, by far. Easy class compared to ECS 40. --["Users/TusharRawat"]''
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- * ''I really liked this course, though if you're not willing to put time (LOTS OF TIME) and effort into it, then expect not to do so well. Beginning of the course is also dedicated to learning Unix, but this time it's slightly more advanced so that you can make nifty shell scripts and the like. Programming assignments sometimes took awhile, and usually for the first few weeks you keep building off the same program that gets too complicated. However, towards the end the assignments lighten up slightly, and if you do the assignments the tests tend to not require too much studying. -- ["GiladGurantz"]''	+ * ''I really liked this course, though if you're not willing to put time (LOTS OF TIME) and effort into it, then expect not to do so well. Beginning of the course is also dedicated to learning Unix, but this time it's slightly more advanced so that you can make nifty shell scripts and the like. Programming assignments sometimes took awhile, and usually for the first few weeks you keep building off the same program that gets too complicated. However, towards the end the assignments lighten up slightly, and if you do the assignments the tests tend to not require too much studying. -- ["Users/GiladGurantz"]''
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- * ''Dr. Farrens teaches CUSP for most of the course, touching briefly on MIPS and x86 at the end. --["TusharRawat" TR]''	+ * ''Dr. Farrens teaches CUSP for most of the course, touching briefly on MIPS and x86 at the end. --["Users/TusharRawat" TR]''
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- * ''This class isn't as programming intensive as ECS 40, though there are some small written homeworks and two write-ups. Neither of the two "challenge" programs were far too difficult (NOTE: these are the programs where you have to beat his times), but I think we got lucky this quarter. I learned a fairly good amount. --["GiladGurantz"]''	+ * ''This class isn't as programming intensive as ECS 40, though there are some small written homeworks and two write-ups. Neither of the two "challenge" programs were far too difficult (NOTE: these are the programs where you have to beat his times), but I think we got lucky this quarter. I learned a fairly good amount. --["Users/GiladGurantz"]''
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- * ''Dr. Martel is an extremely good lecturer for this course. The material is somewhat dense but the class itself is straightforward. -- ["TusharRawat" TR]''	+ * ''Dr. Martel is an extremely good lecturer for this course. The material is somewhat dense but the class itself is straightforward. -- ["Users/TusharRawat" TR]''
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- * ''Dr. Gusfield covers Markov and Hidden Markov models and some statistical analysis as well. Gusfield is well known in the field so if you're interested in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology it's worthwhile to take the course. The material hasn't changed much at all in 6 years. -- ["TusharRawat" TR]''	+ * ''Dr. Gusfield covers Markov and Hidden Markov models and some statistical analysis as well. Gusfield is well known in the field so if you're interested in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology it's worthwhile to take the course. The material hasn't changed much at all in 6 years. -- ["Users/TusharRawat" TR]''
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- * The projects in this class were actually fairly educational but Ma is the worst lecturer I've had in recent memory. - ["TravisGrathwell"] - * I don't feel like the class accomplished its goals very well. I think it needs to have some homework assignments that force us to get breadth in our experience, beyond just where we choose to take our projects. One good thought would be to give us a couple dozen examples of bad interfaces and have us explain what's wrong with them. We wound up totally unprepared for our midterm. I personally hope that the TA, ["Steve Haroz"] will teach this class next time (he claims to be ''the'' usability guy in our department), and that he teaches based on a basic usability text, such as [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/sim-explorer/explore-items/-/0125184069/0/101/1/none/purchase/ref%3Dpd%5Fsxp%5Fr0/002-3713289-0605665 Usability Engineering]. -- ["KenBloom"]	+ * The projects in this class were actually fairly educational but Ma is the worst lecturer I've had in recent memory. - ["Users/TravisGrathwell"] + * I don't feel like the class accomplished its goals very well. I think it needs to have some homework assignments that force us to get breadth in our experience, beyond just where we choose to take our projects. One good thought would be to give us a couple dozen examples of bad interfaces and have us explain what's wrong with them. We wound up totally unprepared for our midterm. I personally hope that the TA, ["Steve Haroz"] will teach this class next time (he claims to be ''the'' usability guy in our department), and that he teaches based on a basic usability text, such as [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/sim-explorer/explore-items/-/0125184069/0/101/1/none/purchase/ref%3Dpd%5Fsxp%5Fr0/002-3713289-0605665 Usability Engineering]. -- ["Users/KenBloom"]
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- * This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmosphere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["AlexGarbutt"]	+ * This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmosphere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"]
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- * ''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead.'' -- ["KenBloom"] - * I enjoyed this class. There is more work than is expected of a 3 unit class, but Earl is a nice guy. Easy to talk to. He provided plenty of feedback on the paper and presentation that we gave at the end of the quarter. Thumbs up, - ["AlexGarbutt"]	+ * ''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead.'' -- ["Users/KenBloom"] + * I enjoyed this class. There is more work than is expected of a 3 unit class, but Earl is a nice guy. Easy to talk to. He provided plenty of feedback on the paper and presentation that we gave at the end of the quarter. Thumbs up, - ["Users/AlexGarbutt"]

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TimJ — 2008-08-28 14:35:59

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- ''ECS 10 - Basic Concepts of Computing'': An introductory programming course intended for non-majors. This course used to teach Pascal,then Java, but they switched to Python sometime in late 2006 or early 2007.	+ ''ECS 10 - Basic Concepts of Computing'': An introductory programming course intended for non-majors. This course used to teach Pascal,then Java, but they switched to Python sometime in late 2006 or early 2007. If taken with Professor Amenta, you can expect the course to go at a solid pace, and you will get into lots of graphical work.
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- ''ECS 122A - Algorithm Design and Analysis'': The second most theoretical course in the CS department. Analyze and design algorithms for problems like sorting, searching and graph traversal, and get introduced to the world of NP/NP-complete problems. Like ECS120, some professors will require more rigor than others. Students can expect a nauseous reaction upon having to sit through the same two weeks of sorting algorithm nonsense that they were likely already exposed to in ECS30, ECS110, and to a lesser extent 20 and 40. [The course ECS122B is almost never taught.]	+ ''ECS 122A - Algorithm Design and Analysis'': The second most theoretical course in the CS department. Analyze and design algorithms for problems like sorting, searching and graph traversal, and get introduced to the world of NP/NP-complete problems. Like ECS120, some professors will require more rigor than others. Students can expect a nauseous reaction upon having to sit through the same two weeks of sorting algorithm nonsense that they were likely already exposed to in ECS30, ECS110, and to a lesser extent 20 and 40.
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	+ + ''ECS 122B - Algorithm Design and Analysis'': This class is the sequel to 122A. According to the 2008-2010 course catalog, this class covers "Theory and practice of hard problems, and problems with complex algorithm solutions. NP-completeness, approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms, dynamic programming and branch and bound. Students do theoretical analysis, implementation and practical evaluations. Examples from parallel, string, graph, and geometric algorithms." ECS 122B is rarely taught, if ever.

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TimJ — 2008-08-09 15:29:06

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- ''ECS 15 - Introduction to Computers'': Another introductory course. This one appears to focus more on computers themselves instead of simply using them. If taught by Davis, you'll get a taste of progamming in Python. Gives SciEng and Writing GE credit.	+ ''ECS 15 - Introduction to Computers'': Another introductory course. This one appears to focus more on computers themselves instead of simply using them. If taught by Davis, you'll get a taste of programming in Python. Gives SciEng and Writing GE credit.

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TimJ — 2008-08-09 15:28:54

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- ''ECS 15 - Introduction to Computers'': Another introductory course. This one appears to focus more on computers themselves instead of simply using them. Gives SciEng and Writing GE credit.	+ ''ECS 15 - Introduction to Computers'': Another introductory course. This one appears to focus more on computers themselves instead of simply using them. If taught by Davis, you'll get a taste of progamming in Python. Gives SciEng and Writing GE credit.

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TimJ — 2008-08-09 14:23:42

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- * ''I took 30 with Gusfield and 20 with Filkov. I took the classes concurrently, meaning I did not take 20 ''after'' 30 like you said. In general, 20 has nothing to do with 30... 30 is a programming course, while 20 is a discrete math theory course. You do no programming in CS 20, and no extensive algorithm work in CS 30. --["TimJ"]''	+ * ''I took 30 with Gusfield and 20 with Filkov. I took the classes concurrently, meaning I did not take 20 ''after'' 30 like you said. In general, 20 has nothing to do with 30... 30 is a programming course, while 20 is a discrete math (theory) course. You do no programming in CS 20, and no extensive algorithm work in CS 30. No need to apologize, I'm not attacking or anything, just putting it out there for the future students! --["TimJ"]''

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TimJ — 2008-08-09 14:22:51

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TusharRawat — 2008-07-24 13:57:51

opinions on courses

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- * ''I have to disagree with the above comment. ECS 30 is absolutely irrelevant to this course-- no relation whatsoever. That being the case, I took CS 20 and CS 30 concurrently. If you haven't taken CS 30, don't worry. --[''TimJ'']''	+ * ''I have to disagree with the above comment. ECS 30 is absolutely irrelevant to this course-- no relation whatsoever. That being the case, I took CS 20 and CS 30 concurrently. If you haven't taken CS 30, don't worry. --["TimJ"]'' + * ''Did you take 30 with Davis? 20 with Koehl? If so, I'm sorry you feel that way. I found the classes, with those professors, very helpful in that order. Also, just noticed, but since you took them concurrently, doesn't my comment not apply to your situation...? --["TusharRawat" TR]''
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	+ + * ''Dr. Farrens teaches CUSP for most of the course, touching briefly on MIPS and x86 at the end. --["TusharRawat" TR]''
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	+ * ''Dr. Martel is an extremely good lecturer for this course. The material is somewhat dense but the class itself is straightforward. -- ["TusharRawat" TR]''
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	+ + * ''Dr. Gusfield covers Markov and Hidden Markov models and some statistical analysis as well. Gusfield is well known in the field so if you're interested in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology it's worthwhile to take the course. The material hasn't changed much at all in 6 years. -- ["TusharRawat" TR]''

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TimJ — 2008-07-02 13:14:13

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- ''ECS 177 - Introduction to Visualization'': Basics of Volume Data visualization (3d data like CT scans, or fluid simulations). Typically students learn about an implement all of the standard methods: a slicer, an isosurfacer, a direct volume renderer, and some sort of vector field visualizer.	+ ''ECS 177 - Introduction to Visualization'': Basics of Volume Data visualization (3d data like CT scans, or fluid simulations). Typically students learn about and implement all of the standard methods: a slicer, an isosurfacer, a direct volume renderer, and some sort of vector field visualizer.

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TimJ — 2008-07-02 13:13:28

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	+ * ''I have to disagree with the above comment. ECS 30 is absolutely irrelevant to this course-- no relation whatsoever. That being the case, I took CS 20 and CS 30 concurrently. If you haven't taken CS 30, don't worry. --[''TimJ'']''

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TimJ — 2008-06-06 20:45:14

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- ''ECS 124 - Theory and Practice of Bioinformatics'': First two weeks of the quarter cover learning Perl and exploring alignment software. Then you move onto better ways to find the optimal alignment of a sequence (i.e. not using brute force), and explore algorithms like Smith-Waterman, and you also learn about dynamic programming. Class is more theoretical than practical, and there is an assumption that you've dealt with tools such as BLAST before. The class also lacks structure, and lectures and labs are very disorganized.	+ ''ECS 124 - Theory and Practice of Bioinformatics'': First two weeks of the quarter cover learning Perl and exploring alignment software. Then you move onto better ways to find the optimal alignment of a sequence (i.e. not using brute force), and explore algorithms like Smith-Waterman, and you also learn about dynamic programming. Class is more theoretical than practical, and there is an assumption that you've dealt with tools such as BLAST before.

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TusharRawat — 2008-06-04 18:02:57

new course ECS 132

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	+ ''ECS 132 - Probability and Statistical Modeling for Computer Science'': New course offered for Winter 2008, taught by Norman Matloff. +

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TimJ — 2008-06-02 15:54:24

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- * "I had professor Franklin for this class, there's no programming, lectures were boring, but it's an easy A. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''	+ * ''I had professor Franklin for this class, there's no programming, lectures were boring, but it's an easy A. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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- * "I took this class with professor Su, the programs arent very challenging nor very time consuming as in ECS40 or ECS110. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''	+ * ''I took this class with professor Su, the programs arent very challenging nor very time consuming as in ECS40 or ECS110. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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- * "Professor Wu has taught the class many times, and is very knowledgeable about the material. The programs arent very hard, although the operating system we used was FREEBSD, I personally used VM-Ware, and my FREEBSD crashed a lot, which got kind of annoying. The grading is very fair, and should be an easy A. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''	+ * ''Professor Wu has taught the class many times, and is very knowledgeable about the material. The programs arent very hard, although the operating system we used was FREEBSD, I personally used VM-Ware, and my FREEBSD crashed a lot, which got kind of annoying. The grading is very fair, and should be an easy A. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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- * "I had professor Ghosal for this class, although I didn't find the class very interesting, I ended up doing research for professor Ghosal. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''	+ * ''I had professor Ghosal for this class, although I didn't find the class very interesting, I ended up doing research for professor Ghosal. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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- * "Professor Farrens is one of the best professor I have had in UC Davis, and he did a great job in this class. The projects were fair and the exams were identical to the practice ones. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''	+ * ''Professor Farrens is one of the best professor I have had in UC Davis, and he did a great job in this class. The projects were fair and the exams were identical to the practice ones. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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- * "This is one of the most time consuming ECS classes ever. The projects took for ever! We had implement a single cycle CPU for our first project, a multi-cycle CPU for the second, and a pipelined cpu for the third, and the it keeps getting harder! The fourth project was a simulation which was pretty easy and straight forward! -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''	+ * ''This is one of the most time consuming ECS classes ever. The projects took for ever! We had implement a single cycle CPU for our first project, a multi-cycle CPU for the second, and a pipelined cpu for the third, and the it keeps getting harder! The fourth project was a simulation which was pretty easy and straight forward! -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''

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TimJ — 2008-05-18 21:29:57

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- ''ECS 124 - Theory and Practice of Bioinformatics'': First two weeks of the quarter cover learning Perl and exploring alignment software. Then you move onto better ways to find the optimal alignment of a sequence (i.e. not using brute force), and explore algorithms like Smith-Waterman, and you also learn about dynamic programming. Class is more theoretical than practical, and there is an assumption that you've dealt with tools such as BLAST before.	+ ''ECS 124 - Theory and Practice of Bioinformatics'': First two weeks of the quarter cover learning Perl and exploring alignment software. Then you move onto better ways to find the optimal alignment of a sequence (i.e. not using brute force), and explore algorithms like Smith-Waterman, and you also learn about dynamic programming. Class is more theoretical than practical, and there is an assumption that you've dealt with tools such as BLAST before. The class also lacks structure, and lectures and labs are very disorganized.

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TimJ — 2008-04-23 11:39:07

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- ''ECS 124 - Theory and Practice of Bioinfomatics'': First two weeks of the quarter cover learning Perl and exploring alignment software. Then you move onto better ways to find the optimal alignment of a sequence (i.e. not using brute force), and explore algorithms like Smith-Waterman, and you also learn about dynamic programming. Class is more theoretical than practical, and there is an assumption that you've dealt with tools such as BLAST before.	+ ''ECS 124 - Theory and Practice of Bioinformatics'': First two weeks of the quarter cover learning Perl and exploring alignment software. Then you move onto better ways to find the optimal alignment of a sequence (i.e. not using brute force), and explore algorithms like Smith-Waterman, and you also learn about dynamic programming. Class is more theoretical than practical, and there is an assumption that you've dealt with tools such as BLAST before.

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TimJ — 2008-04-23 11:37:41

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TimJ — 2008-04-23 11:37:23

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	+ + "ECS 124 - Theory and Practice of Bioinfomatics": First two weeks of the quarter cover learning Perl and exploring alignment software. Then you move onto better ways to find the optimal alignment of a sequence (i.e. not using brute force), and explore algorithms like Smith-Waterman, and you also learn about dynamic programming. Class is more theoretical than practical, and there is an assumption that you've dealt with tools such as BLAST before.

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JasonAller — 2008-01-12 18:22:01

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- * ''I have to disagree, unfortunately I didn't take this class from Sean Davis, and my instructor did not do a very good job. The challenge programs were really challenging, and my partner and I had to put a lot of time into it. My group was the only group that even tried the very last program in the class. We obtained 37/50 points, and everyone else got 0's in the class. -- ["Roozbeh"]''	+ * ''I have to disagree, unfortunately I didn't take this class from Sean Davis, and my instructor did not do a very good job. The challenge programs were really challenging, and my partner and I had to put a lot of time into it. My group was the only group that even tried the very last program in the class. We obtained 37/50 points, and everyone else got 0's in the class. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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- * "I had professor Franklin for this class, there's no programming, lectures were boring, but it's an easy A. -- ["Roozbeh"]''	+ * "I had professor Franklin for this class, there's no programming, lectures were boring, but it's an easy A. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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- * "I took this class with professor Su, the programs arent very challenging nor very time consuming as in ECS40 or ECS110. -- ["Roozbeh"]''	+ * "I took this class with professor Su, the programs arent very challenging nor very time consuming as in ECS40 or ECS110. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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- * "Professor Wu has taught the class many times, and is very knowledgeable about the material. The programs arent very hard, although the operating system we used was FREEBSD, I personally used VM-Ware, and my FREEBSD crashed a lot, which got kind of annoying. The grading is very fair, and should be an easy A. -- ["Roozbeh"]''	+ * "Professor Wu has taught the class many times, and is very knowledgeable about the material. The programs arent very hard, although the operating system we used was FREEBSD, I personally used VM-Ware, and my FREEBSD crashed a lot, which got kind of annoying. The grading is very fair, and should be an easy A. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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- * "Professor Farrens is one of the best professor I have had in UC Davis, and he did a great job in this class. The projects were fair and the exams were identical to the practice ones. -- ["Roozbeh"]''	+ * "Professor Farrens is one of the best professor I have had in UC Davis, and he did a great job in this class. The projects were fair and the exams were identical to the practice ones. -- ["Users/Roozbeh"]''
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Roozbeh — 2008-01-12 18:02:50

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Roozbeh — 2008-01-12 17:53:23

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	+ + * ''I have to disagree, unfortunately I didn't take this class from Sean Davis, and my instructor did not do a very good job. The challenge programs were really challenging, and my partner and I had to put a lot of time into it. My group was the only group that even tried the very last program in the class. We obtained 37/50 points, and everyone else got 0's in the class. -- ["Roozbeh"]''

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MattMasuda — 2007-12-17 16:57:40

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- ''ECS 60 - Data Structures and Programming'': Replaces ECS 110 effective Fall 2007. According to ["Sean Davis"], the course content is the same. Indeed, many of his handouts during the Fall 2007 quarter were still titled "ECS 110."	+ ''ECS 60 - Data Structures and Programming'': Replaces ECS 110 effective Fall 2007. According to ["Sean Davis"], the course content is the same as 110. Indeed, many of his handouts during the Fall 2007 quarter were still titled "ECS 110."

Computer Science

MattMasuda — 2007-12-17 16:55:45

Info about ECS 60 vs. ECS 110

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- ''ECS 60 - Data Structures and Programming'': Replaces ECS 110 effective Fall 2007 -- on the surface there doesn't seem to be much difference, but who knows.	+ ''ECS 60 - Data Structures and Programming'': Replaces ECS 110 effective Fall 2007. According to ["Sean Davis"], the course content is the same. Indeed, many of his handouts during the Fall 2007 quarter were still titled "ECS 110."

Computer Science

AlexMandel — 2007-11-29 00:55:09

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- ''ECS 10 - Basic Concepts of Computing'': An introductory programming course intended for non-majors. This course used to teach Pascal, but they switched to Python sometime in late 2006 or early 2007.	+ ''ECS 10 - Basic Concepts of Computing'': An introductory programming course intended for non-majors. This course used to teach Pascal,then Java, but they switched to Python sometime in late 2006 or early 2007.

Computer Science

WilliamLewis — 2007-06-27 21:48:26

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- ''ECS 10 - Basic Concepts of Computing'': An introductory course intended for non-majors. This course used to teach Pascal, but they switched to Python sometime in late 2006 or early 2007.	+ ''ECS 10 - Basic Concepts of Computing'': An introductory programming course intended for non-majors. This course used to teach Pascal, but they switched to Python sometime in late 2006 or early 2007.

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WilliamLewis — 2007-06-27 21:22:33

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- ''ECS 110 - '''Replaced by ECS 60'''. Data Structures and Programming'': The next logical extension in the "basic programming" track from ECS40, 110 is the software-side gateway to most upper division ECS courses. The course covers using basic data structures such as arrays, stacks/queues, trees, hash tables for applications like sorting and graph problems. Taking this class with ["Sean Davis"] is a lot harder than with any other professor, as his programs are a lot harder and he grades submitted programs based on their running time. Nevertheless, those who survive Davis usually recommend it as a positive experience in hindsight.	+ ''ECS 110 - '''Replaced by ECS 60'''. Data Structures and Programming'': The next logical extension in the "basic programming" track from ECS40, 110 is the software-side gateway to most upper division ECS courses. The course covers using basic data structures such as arrays, stacks/queues, trees, hash tables for applications like sorting and graph problems. Taking this class with ["Sean Davis"] is a lot harder than with any other instructor, as his programs are a lot harder and he grades submitted programs based on their running time. Nevertheless, those who survive Davis usually recommend it as a positive experience in hindsight.

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WilliamLewis — 2007-06-27 21:22:06

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- ''ECS 110 - Data Structures and Programming'': The next logical extension in the "basic programming" track from ECS40, 110 is the software-side gateway to most upper division ECS courses. The course covers using basic data structures such as arrays, stacks/queues, trees, hash tables for applications like sorting and graph problems. Taking this class with ["Sean Davis"] is a lot harder than with any other professor, as his programs are a lot harder and he grades submitted programs based on their running time. Nevertheless, those who survive Davis usually recommend it as a positive experience in hindsight.	+ ''ECS 110 - '''Replaced by ECS 60'''. Data Structures and Programming'': The next logical extension in the "basic programming" track from ECS40, 110 is the software-side gateway to most upper division ECS courses. The course covers using basic data structures such as arrays, stacks/queues, trees, hash tables for applications like sorting and graph problems. Taking this class with ["Sean Davis"] is a lot harder than with any other professor, as his programs are a lot harder and he grades submitted programs based on their running time. Nevertheless, those who survive Davis usually recommend it as a positive experience in hindsight.

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WilliamLewis — 2007-06-27 21:19:53

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- ''ECS 10 - Basic Concepts of Computing'': An introductory course intended for non-majors.	+ ''ECS 10 - Basic Concepts of Computing'': An introductory course intended for non-majors. This course used to teach Pascal, but they switched to Python sometime in late 2006 or early 2007.

Computer Science

BillBroadley — 2007-05-19 04:27:14

Colony has nothing to do with Computer Science.

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KateWaterman — 2007-05-14 01:15:16

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- "ECS 60 - Data Structures and Programming": Replaces ECS 110 effective Fall 2007 -- on the surface there doesn't seem to be much difference, but who knows.	+ ''ECS 60 - Data Structures and Programming'': Replaces ECS 110 effective Fall 2007 -- on the surface there doesn't seem to be much difference, but who knows.

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KateWaterman — 2007-05-14 01:14:47

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- ''ECS 20 - Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science'': A fairly simple logic course. Subjects covered include logical proofs, graph theory, and solving of recurrence relations; the kind of math to prepare you for analysing algorithms in 122A.	+ ''ECS 20 - Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science'': A fairly simple logic course. Subjects covered include logical proofs, graph theory, and solving of recurrence relations; the kind of math to prepare you for analyzing algorithms in 122A.
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- ''ECS 110 - Data Structures and Programming'': The next logical extension in the "basic programming" track from ECS40, 110 is the software-side gateway to most upper divison ECS courses. The course covers using basic data structures such as arrays, stacks/queues, trees, hash tables for applications like sorting and graph problems. Taking this class with ["Sean Davis"] is a lot harder than with any other professor, as his programs are a lot harder and he grades submitted programs based on their running time. Nevertheless, those who survive Davis usually recommend it as a positive experience in hindsight.	+ ''ECS 110 - Data Structures and Programming'': The next logical extension in the "basic programming" track from ECS40, 110 is the software-side gateway to most upper division ECS courses. The course covers using basic data structures such as arrays, stacks/queues, trees, hash tables for applications like sorting and graph problems. Taking this class with ["Sean Davis"] is a lot harder than with any other professor, as his programs are a lot harder and he grades submitted programs based on their running time. Nevertheless, those who survive Davis usually recommend it as a positive experience in hindsight.
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- ''ECS 122A - Algorithm Design and Analysis'': The second most theoretical course in the CS department. Analyse and design algorithms for problems like sorting, searching and graph traversal, and get introduced to the world of NP/NP-complete problems. Like ECS120, some professors will require more rigor than others. Students can expect a nauseous reaction upon having to sit through the same two weeks of sorting algorithm nonsense that they were likely already exposed to in ECS30, ECS110, and to a lesser extent 20 and 40. [The course ECS122B is almost never taught.]	+ ''ECS 122A - Algorithm Design and Analysis'': The second most theoretical course in the CS department. Analyze and design algorithms for problems like sorting, searching and graph traversal, and get introduced to the world of NP/NP-complete problems. Like ECS120, some professors will require more rigor than others. Students can expect a nauseous reaction upon having to sit through the same two weeks of sorting algorithm nonsense that they were likely already exposed to in ECS30, ECS110, and to a lesser extent 20 and 40. [The course ECS122B is almost never taught.]
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- ''ECS 177 - Introduction to Visualization'': Basics of Volume Data visulazation (3d data like CT scans, or fluid simulations). Typically students learn about an implement all of the standard methods: a slicer, an isosurfacer, a direct volume renderer, and some sort of vector field visualizer. - * This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmoshpere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["AlexGarbutt"]	+ ''ECS 177 - Introduction to Visualization'': Basics of Volume Data visualization (3d data like CT scans, or fluid simulations). Typically students learn about an implement all of the standard methods: a slicer, an isosurfacer, a direct volume renderer, and some sort of vector field visualizer. + * This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmosphere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["AlexGarbutt"]
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- This course has been cancelled for 2005-2006, no petition has yet been started. There definitely shoud be one though.	+ This course has been cancelled for 2005-2006, no petition has yet been started. There definitely should be one though.

Computer Science

TusharRawat — 2007-03-12 21:52:37

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	+ + * ''I agree with the above. A good lecturer is Sean Davis. He's a hard teacher, but you'll know your stuff at the end. As long as you put a decent effort into the programs you won't really need to study for tests. I studied 30 minutes total and got a 91% on the final - and I was not the best in the class, by far. Easy class compared to ECS 40. --["TusharRawat"]''

Computer Science

TusharRawat — 2007-03-12 21:47:16

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	+ * ''This class is exceedingly easy, especially if you take it ''after'' ECS 30. Dr. Patrice Koehl is easily the best teacher to take this course with. On a side note if anyone has trouble with concepts in this course I'd be happy to help them out. --["TusharRawat"]''
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- ''ECS 150 - Operating Systems'': An interesting class if you're into this kind of thing, and goes over scheduling processes, semaphores, memory, page tables, etc. This is an easy class if you take it with Wu. He's a nice guy, knows his stuff, and will tell the occasional story/joke plus the occasional slip (blahblahblah where I met my first wife, I mean, ONLY wife, ONLY wife, heh...). His tests however are multiple choice and each question is worth about 2% of your grade. Also, the little boxes on just about each slide of his slide presentations make absolutely no sense until he explains them. And if you don't take notes, the little boxes will make absolutely no sense to you again when you take your printouts to the tests. The best TA ever was Sophie.	+ ''ECS 150 - Operating Systems'': An interesting class if you're into this kind of thing, and goes over scheduling processes, semaphores, memory, page tables, etc. This is an easy class if you take it with Wu. He's a nice guy, knows his stuff, and will tell the occasional story/joke plus the occasional slip (blahblahblah where I met my first wife, I mean, ONLY wife, ONLY wife, heh...). His tests however are multiple choice and each question is worth about 2% of your grade. Also, the little boxes on just about each slide of his slide presentations make absolutely no sense until he explains them. And if you don't take notes, the little boxes will make absolutely no sense to you again when you take your printouts to the tests. The best TA ever was Sophie.
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- ''ECS 153 - Computer Security'': An interesting class if you're into that kind of thing. Contrary to what most people might think, this class does not teach you how to hack (sorry). The vulnerabilities used as examples should have been fixed long ago (at least we'd expect so). With an academic view of security, it goes over different security models, spotting bad coding habits, legal issues, Sun Tzu, encryption, authenticating messages, viruses, worms, etc.	+ ''ECS 153 - Computer Security'': An interesting class if you're into that kind of thing. Contrary to what most people might think, this class does not teach you how to hack (sorry). The vulnerabilities used as examples should have been fixed long ago (at least we'd expect so). With an academic view of security, it goes over different security models, spotting bad coding habits, legal issues, Sun Tzu, encryption, authenticating messages, viruses, worms, etc.

Computer Science

AlexGarbutt — 2006-05-02 15:04:25

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- * I enjoyed this class. There is more work than is expected of a 3 unit class, but Earl is a nice guy. Easy to talk to. He provided plenty of feedback on the paper and presentation that we gave at the end of the quarter. Thumbs up, - ["AlexGarbut"]	+ * I enjoyed this class. There is more work than is expected of a 3 unit class, but Earl is a nice guy. Easy to talk to. He provided plenty of feedback on the paper and presentation that we gave at the end of the quarter. Thumbs up, - ["AlexGarbutt"]

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KateWaterman — 2006-04-07 13:45:47

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- The Computer Science (CS) major is a B.S. in the College of ["Letters and Science"]. It requires you to choose from one of three science tracks Bio, Chem or Physics. It also requires a couple more math courses. If you want to learn about Bioinformatics, then ''do not'' major in CSE, becasue you won't have room for the Biology that you need to learn Bioinformatics.	+ The Computer Science (CS) major is a B.S. in the College of ["Letters and Science"]. It requires you to choose from one of three science tracks Bio, Chem or Physics. It also requires a couple more math courses. If you want to learn about ["Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics" Bioinformatics], then ''do not'' major in CSE, becasue you won't have room for the Biology that you need to learn Bioinformatics.

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KateWaterman — 2006-04-07 13:42:36

linkity

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- It offers two B.S. degrees: one in Computer Science, which is given by the ["Letters and Science" College of Letters and Science], and one in Computer Science Engineering, given by the ["College of Engineering"], as well as a 24-unit minor. CS majors are allowed more freedom in the courses they take, as, unlike Engineering majors, they do not have almost all 180 units planned out for them. They also don't have to take any Communication or English classes. The primary difference between the majors is that the CSE major focuses significantly more on software/hardware interactions, while the CS major is more software-oriented. They are very similar otherwise.	+ It offers two B.S. degrees: one in Computer Science, which is given by the ["Letters and Science" College of Letters and Science], and one in Computer Science Engineering, given by the ["College of Engineering"], as well as a 24-unit ["minors" minor]. CS majors are allowed more freedom in the courses they take, as, unlike Engineering majors, they do not have almost all 180 units planned out for them. They also don't have to take any Communication or English classes. The primary difference between the ["majors"] is that the CSE major focuses significantly more on software/hardware interactions, while the CS major is more software-oriented. They are very similar otherwise.

Computer Science

MarkMcDermott — 2006-03-15 11:33:22

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Computer Science

BrentLaabs — 2006-01-25 12:22:41

link to CSIF

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AlexGarbutt — 2006-01-25 07:47:35

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	+ ''ECS 152B - Computer Networks'': Rather than going over the concepts of the networking stack, actually gain some experience writing client/server programs and utilizing TCP/IP. + + ''ECS 152C - Computer Networks'': Wireless networks. +
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	+ * This class is terrible. Professor Ma is one of the worst lecturers ever. Everything you learn will be from reading the research papers, not from lecture. While the projects are interesting, they take an ungodly amount of time in order to complete. A component of your project grade is based off of "impressing" Professor Ma. This engendered a very cut-throat atmoshpere where students would no longer help each other as this would be helping the competition. - ["AlexGarbutt"]
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- ''ECS 188 - Ethics and the Information Age'': CS and CSE require a "Professional Responsibilities/Ethics" class. This fills that requirement. This deals with philosophy of ethics and the ethical issues that may be involved in Computer Science applications. ''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead.'' -- ["KenBloom"]	+ ''ECS 188 - Ethics and the Information Age'': CS and CSE require a "Professional Responsibilities/Ethics" class. This fills that requirement. This deals with philosophy of ethics and the ethical issues that may be involved in Computer Science applications. + * ''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead.'' -- ["KenBloom"] + * I enjoyed this class. There is more work than is expected of a 3 unit class, but Earl is a nice guy. Easy to talk to. He provided plenty of feedback on the paper and presentation that we gave at the end of the quarter. Thumbs up, - ["AlexGarbut"]

Computer Science

TravisGrathwell — 2006-01-01 19:09:07

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JasonAller — 2005-09-22 17:10:00

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IrenePark — 2005-08-31 17:49:47

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AndreyGoder — 2005-08-15 14:38:01

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	+ * ''I have to disagree (having taken it from Filkov), as I found the class comparatively interesting, if he did perhaps go a bit too slowly over some of the material. Since it was intended as an intro into the math useful for CS, I found it succeeded at that. -- ["AndreyGoder"]''

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KenBloom — 2005-06-16 10:57:15

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- * ''This class isn't as programming intensive as ECS 40, though there are some small written homeworks and two write-ups. Neither of the two "challenge" programs were far too difficult (NOTE: these are the programs where you have to beat his times), but I think we got lucky this quarter. I learned a fairly good amount. --["GiladGurantz"]	+ * ''This class isn't as programming intensive as ECS 40, though there are some small written homeworks and two write-ups. Neither of the two "challenge" programs were far too difficult (NOTE: these are the programs where you have to beat his times), but I think we got lucky this quarter. I learned a fairly good amount. --["GiladGurantz"]''
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- ''ECS 163 - Information Interfaces'': The GUI class, a breath of fresh air for those sick of making console programs. This is starting to sound a bit more like the general principles of human computer interaction, rather than a "how to" class for those who want to be prepared to go out into industry. Offered for the first time in Spring 2005, the class was composed of two projects: first, to make a program that visualizes a directory structure (most people did a [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/ Treemap]), second, to form a group of 4 or 5 and make a website. The guidelines for the second project were very loose. - The projects in this class were actually fairly educational but Ma is the worst lecturer I've had in recent memory. - ["TravisGrathwell"]	+ ''ECS 163 - Information Interfaces'': The GUI class, a breath of fresh air for those sick of making console programs. This class was intended to focus on the principles of visualizations and the principles of human-computer interaction. Offered for the first time in Spring 2005, the class was composed of two projects: first, to make a program that visualizes a directory structure (most people did a [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/ Treemap]), second, to form a group of 4 or 5 and make a website. The guidelines for the second project were very loose. + * The projects in this class were actually fairly educational but Ma is the worst lecturer I've had in recent memory. - ["TravisGrathwell"] + * I don't feel like the class accomplished its goals very well. I think it needs to have some homework assignments that force us to get breadth in our experience, beyond just where we choose to take our projects. One good thought would be to give us a couple dozen examples of bad interfaces and have us explain what's wrong with them. We wound up totally unprepared for our midterm. I personally hope that the TA, ["Steve Haroz"] will teach this class next time (he claims to be ''the'' usability guy in our department), and that he teaches based on a basic usability text, such as [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/sim-explorer/explore-items/-/0125184069/0/101/1/none/purchase/ref%3Dpd%5Fsxp%5Fr0/002-3713289-0605665 Usability Engineering]. -- ["KenBloom"]

Computer Science

GiladGurantz — 2005-06-11 13:23:37

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	+ * ''This was a quarter-long torture chamber. Honestly, I didn't feel like I learned much of anything, and classes were boring and difficult. I heard it was easy if you get Sniegowski as a teacher, but Filkov was difficult simply because he was not good at teaching the material. The only thing useful I've gained from it was learning Big-Oh notation.. most of the other things seem to just be intros to upper divisional classes on algorithms and such. Overall I think it could have been a useful class, but I really did not like my teacher. -- ["GiladGurantz"]'' +
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GiladGurantz — 2005-06-11 10:45:57

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	+ * ''First two weeks spent on how to use Unix so that you can do your programming assignments in it. Then most of the course just goes through the basics of programming: loops, conditional statements, etc. etc. Decent difficulty for beginners.. I started early on assignments and had no problems at all, although it seemed that non-CS majors would wait and suffer a little. By the time pointers are introduced some people start having problems, but overall if you're a CS major this class should not be a problem (at least, if you're taking it with Sniegowski). -- ["GiladGurantz"]'' +
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	+ + * ''I really liked this course, though if you're not willing to put time (LOTS OF TIME) and effort into it, then expect not to do so well. Beginning of the course is also dedicated to learning Unix, but this time it's slightly more advanced so that you can make nifty shell scripts and the like. Programming assignments sometimes took awhile, and usually for the first few weeks you keep building off the same program that gets too complicated. However, towards the end the assignments lighten up slightly, and if you do the assignments the tests tend to not require too much studying. -- ["GiladGurantz"]''

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TravisGrathwell — 2005-06-10 16:42:10

yeah well marie i took a grad class too so there

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- ''ECS 142 - Compilers'': Probably considered the most obscurely technical class in Computer Science, this class teaches you to build a compiler in 5 easy steps. The only class that could conceivably compete for that title would be ECS 150, if its goal was to ''write'' an operating system. (1) Understand the language. (2) Lexical Analysis -- find the tokens (3) Parse the tokens and determine whether they match the structure of the language (4) Check the semantics of the language (5) Generate code. ''Ooh! This sounds a bit like ["Linguistics" Computational Linguistics].'' -- ["KenBloom"]	+ ''ECS 142 - Compilers'': Probably considered the most obscurely technical class in Computer Science, this class teaches you to build a compiler in 5 easy steps. The only class that could conceivably compete for that title would be ECS 150, if its goal was to ''write'' an operating system. (1) Understand the language. (2) Lexical Analysis -- find the tokens (3) Parse the tokens and determine whether they match the structure of the language (4) Check the semantics of the language (5) Generate code. + This course has been cancelled for 2005-2006 but a [http://ecs142petition.blogspot.com petition] has been circulating to have it offered.
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- ''ECS 145 - Scripting Languages'': New in Winter '05. Write programs of questionable complexity in Perl, Python, that sort of thing. It filled up during something like the second day of pass times.	+ ''ECS 145 - Scripting Languages'': First offered in Spring 2005. Mainly focused on Python with small coverage of Perl in the last couple weeks of class. A great, educational class. No word on when it will be offered again.
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- ''ECS 163 - Information Interfaces'': The GUI class, a breath of fresh air for those sick of making console programs. This is starting to sound a bit more like the general principles of human computer interaction, rather than a "how to" class for those who want to be prepared to go out into industry. '''This class will be offered Spring 2005 for the first time in years. When someone has taken it, we'll fill more info in.'''	+ ''ECS 163 - Information Interfaces'': The GUI class, a breath of fresh air for those sick of making console programs. This is starting to sound a bit more like the general principles of human computer interaction, rather than a "how to" class for those who want to be prepared to go out into industry. Offered for the first time in Spring 2005, the class was composed of two projects: first, to make a program that visualizes a directory structure (most people did a [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/ Treemap]), second, to form a group of 4 or 5 and make a website. The guidelines for the second project were very loose. + The projects in this class were actually fairly educational but Ma is the worst lecturer I've had in recent memory. - ["TravisGrathwell"]
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- ''ECS 175 - Introduction to Computer Graphics'': The gateway to UC Davis' somewhat extensive selection of Graphics Courses, consisting of the 17x series in the undergraduate level and the 27x series on the graduate level. Content varies a LOT by professor. Depending on who's teaching, the workload can be a step above even the most difficult ECS40/110 class, but the rewards are far greater, because pretty stuff shows up on the computer screen. 175 can be a real eye-opening experience for a student who's traveled through the ECS30/40/110 track and is sick of being reintroduced to bubble sort. 175 is a classic recruitment class, do well, and you have a good shot at an undergraduate research position.	+ ''ECS 175 - Introduction to Computer Graphics'': The gateway to UC Davis' somewhat extensive selection of Graphics Courses, consisting of the 17x series in the undergraduate level and the 27x series on the graduate level. Content varies a LOT by professor. Depending on who's teaching, the workload can be light years above the typical CS class, but some would argue the rewards are greater, because pretty stuff shows up on the computer screen. 175 can be a refreshing experience for a student who's traveled through the ECS30/40/110 track and is sick of being reintroduced to bubble sort. 175 is a classic recruitment class, do well, and you have a good shot at an undergraduate research position. + ["OliverKreylos"] taught this for his first time in Spring 2005 and worked his students to death. Basically they had to implement a full rendering pipeline, ending with hierarchical models and an advanced graphics project of the student's choosing (not unlike ECS275).
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	+ ''ECS 275A - Advanced Computer Graphics'' - When taught by Staadt: Primary focus on hierarchical scene graph rendering, visibility and occlusion culling, and level of detail techniques for both models and terrain. Discussion of other advanced topics such as image-based rendering, collision detection, shaders, environment mapping, etc. The last 2/5ths of the class was presentations given by students. Final project was to make a game-like program of your choosing that showed off advanced graphic features learned in class. This is a great class to take if you've taken ECS175 and want further motivation to make shiny computer graphics projects. +

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MarieHuynh — 2005-06-10 00:16:24

some grad classes

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	+ === Graduate Courses === + ''ECS 235 '' - When taught by Bishop, much like his undergraduate course, and even uses the same book that was written by him, but is heavier on the theory and proofs. 50/50 hw/project. The project is interesting because you get to do whatever you want to do that is security related for the quarter and then write up a report at the end. + + ''ECS 251 - Operating System Models'' - When taught by Wu, focuses on BSD for examples. Homeworks include creating an antivirus kernel loadable module using clamAV and lots of hackery. +

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TravisGrathwell — 2005-03-02 20:27:09

attributed some comments

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- ''ECS 142 - Compilers'': Probably considered the most obscurely technical class in Computer Science, this class teaches you to build a compiler in 5 easy steps. The only class that could conceivably compete for that title would be ECS 150, if its goal was to ''write'' an operating system. (1) Understand the language. (2) Lexical Analysis -- find the tokens (3) Parse the tokens and determine whether they match the structure of the language (4) Check the semantics of the language (5) Generate code. Ooh! This sounds a bit like ["Linguistics" Computational Linguistics].	+ ''ECS 142 - Compilers'': Probably considered the most obscurely technical class in Computer Science, this class teaches you to build a compiler in 5 easy steps. The only class that could conceivably compete for that title would be ECS 150, if its goal was to ''write'' an operating system. (1) Understand the language. (2) Lexical Analysis -- find the tokens (3) Parse the tokens and determine whether they match the structure of the language (4) Check the semantics of the language (5) Generate code. ''Ooh! This sounds a bit like ["Linguistics" Computational Linguistics].'' -- ["KenBloom"]
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- ''ECS 188 - Ethics and the Information Age'': CS and CSE require a "Professional Responsibilities/Ethics" class. This fills that requirement. This deals with philosophy of ethics and the ethical issues that may be involved in Computer Science applications. '''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead.'''.	+ ''ECS 188 - Ethics and the Information Age'': CS and CSE require a "Professional Responsibilities/Ethics" class. This fills that requirement. This deals with philosophy of ethics and the ethical issues that may be involved in Computer Science applications. ''Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead.'' -- ["KenBloom"]

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KenBloom — 2005-02-07 16:14:42

ECS188: Do not take this class. Take ENG 190 instead

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- ''ENG 190 - Professional Responsibilities of Engineers'': Described [http://mae.ucdavis.edu/classes/classes_desc.htm here]. This may be ECS 188's more useful and practical twin.	+ ''ENG 190 - Professional Responsibilities of Engineers'': Described [http://mae.ucdavis.edu/classes/classes_desc.htm here]. Fills CS and CSE's "Professional Responsibilities/Ethics" class requirement. This is ECS 188's more useful and practical twin.

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KenBloom — 2005-02-01 17:34:19

ECS 163 renamed, in preparation for its resurrection. ECS 145 (no description).

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- ''ECS 163 - User/Computer Interfaces'': The GUI class, a breath of fresh air for those sick of making console programs. '''This class will be offered Spring 2005 for the first time in years. When someone has taken it, we'll fill more info in.'''	+ ''ECS 163 - Information Interfaces'': The GUI class, a breath of fresh air for those sick of making console programs. This is starting to sound a bit more like the general principles of human computer interaction, rather than a "how to" class for those who want to be prepared to go out into industry. '''This class will be offered Spring 2005 for the first time in years. When someone has taken it, we'll fill more info in.'''
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- ''["Linguistics" LIN 177] - Computational Linguistics''	+ ''["Linguistics" LIN 177] - Computational Linguistics'': Can give you GE credit while programming.

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KenBloom — 2005-01-29 23:42:57

that link needed a name.

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KenBloom — 2005-01-29 23:41:25

Updated ECS 188, added ENG 190. You may be better off with the latter.

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	+ ''ENG 190 - Professional Responsibilities of Engineers'': Described [http://mae.ucdavis.edu/classes/classes_desc.htm]. This may be ECS 188's more useful and practical twin. +

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KenBloom — 2005-01-25 23:31:45

Added ECS 142 -- Compilers. Maybe someone can write a bit better blurb than me.

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KenBloom — 2005-01-17 16:52:41

a table of contents would be useful on such a long page

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KenBloom — 2005-01-17 13:16:33

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- The Computer Science Engineering (abbreviated CSE or ECS) major requires taking the Physics 9 series of classes, and also three Electrical Engineering courses:	+ The Computer Science Engineering (abbreviated CSE or ECS) major requires taking the Physics 9 series of classes, ECS 160 and also four Electrical Engineering courses:
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MarieHuynh — 2005-01-16 22:35:41

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- ''ECS 188 - Ethics and the Information Age'': Required ethics class for all CS and CSE majors. Don't take it with Barr. ''Barr seems fine to me. -- ["KenBloom"]''	+ ''ECS 188 - Ethics and the Information Age'': Required ethics class for all CS and CSE majors. Don't take it with Barr. If he knows your name, he'll pick on you. ''Barr seems fine to me. -- ["KenBloom"]''

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KenBloom — 2005-01-16 22:24:39

Barr for ECS188 seems fine to me.

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AdamMoerschell — 2005-01-08 02:35:20

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- * EEC 172 - Micro-Computer Based System Design (i.e. Embedded Processors)	+ * EEC 172 - Microcomputer-Based System Design (i.e. Embedded Processors)

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AdamMoerschell — 2005-01-08 00:29:41

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AdamMoerschell — 2005-01-08 00:29:02

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AdamMoerschell — 2005-01-08 00:26:31

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- It offers two B.S. degrees: one in Computer Science, which is given by the ["College of Letters and Science"], and one in Computer Science Engineering, given by the ["College of Engineering"], as well as a 24-unit minor. CS majors are allowed more freedom in the courses they take, as, unlike Engineering majors, they do not have almost all 180 units planned out for them. They also don't have to take any Communication or English classes. The primary difference between the majors is that the CSE major focuses significantly more on software/hardware interactions, while the CS major is more software-oriented. They are very similar otherwise.	+ It offers two B.S. degrees: one in Computer Science, which is given by the ["Letters and Science" College of Letters and Science], and one in Computer Science Engineering, given by the ["College of Engineering"], as well as a 24-unit minor. CS majors are allowed more freedom in the courses they take, as, unlike Engineering majors, they do not have almost all 180 units planned out for them. They also don't have to take any Communication or English classes. The primary difference between the majors is that the CSE major focuses significantly more on software/hardware interactions, while the CS major is more software-oriented. They are very similar otherwise.

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KennethWaters — 2005-01-07 03:29:52

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- ''ECS 175 - Introduction to Computer Graphics'': The gateway to UC Davis' somewhat extensive selection of Graphics Courses, consisting of the 17x series in the undergraduate level and the 27x series on the graduate level. Content varies a LOT by professor. Depending on who's teaching, the workload can be a step above even the most difficult ECS40/110 class, but the rewards are far greater, because pretty stuff shows up on the computer screen. 175 can be a real eye-opening experience for a student who's traveled through the ECS30/40/110 track and is sick of being reintroduced to bubble sort.	+ ''ECS 175 - Introduction to Computer Graphics'': The gateway to UC Davis' somewhat extensive selection of Graphics Courses, consisting of the 17x series in the undergraduate level and the 27x series on the graduate level. Content varies a LOT by professor. Depending on who's teaching, the workload can be a step above even the most difficult ECS40/110 class, but the rewards are far greater, because pretty stuff shows up on the computer screen. 175 can be a real eye-opening experience for a student who's traveled through the ECS30/40/110 track and is sick of being reintroduced to bubble sort. 175 is a classic recruitment class, do well, and you have a good shot at an undergraduate research position.
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- ''ECS 177 - Introduction to Visualization'': Extension of ECS175 involving displaying datasets gathered via SCIENCE (like MRI scan data) elegantly using computers. '''Someone who has taken this should fill more info in.'''	+ ''ECS 177 - Introduction to Visualization'': Basics of Volume Data visulazation (3d data like CT scans, or fluid simulations). Typically students learn about an implement all of the standard methods: a slicer, an isosurfacer, a direct volume renderer, and some sort of vector field visualizer.
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- ''ECS 178 - Introduction to Geometric Modeling'': Extension of ECS175 dealing with curves instead of polygons. '''Someone who has taken this should fill more info.'''	+ ''ECS 178 - Introduction to Geometric Modeling'': This class is about Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline Surfaces (NURBS). This class is math heavy. It takes the whole quarter, but you eventually learn all the mathematical under pinnings and implement the basics of NURBS. Heavy programming load. Good class for those who want to work on CAD systems or modelling packages.

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KenBloom — 2005-01-06 20:23:27

Lo and behold, ECS 160 is not required for an ordinary CS major.

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JevanGray — 2005-01-06 12:45:37

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	+ ''ECS 140B - Programming Languages'': A continuation of ECS 140A. More exposure to various programming languages and the concepts behind the implementation of their features. +

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KenBloom — 2005-01-05 21:07:44

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- * ''I am an ECS major, and I found the ENG 17 and EEC 180a to be quite painful. I also found that EEC 180a was almost completely a repetition of things I had learned in ECS 154a and ECS 154b (see below). But EEC172 was a lot of fun, and practically requires these circuits courses as prerequisites. Given the choice again, knowing what I know now. I probably would have chosen CS instead. -- ["KenBloom"]	+ * ''I am an ECS major, and I found the ENG 17 and EEC 180a to be quite painful. I also found that EEC 180a was almost completely a repetition of things I had learned in ECS 154a and ECS 154b (see below). But EEC172 was a lot of fun, and practically requires these circuits courses as prerequisites. Given the choice again, knowing what I know now. I probably would have chosen CS instead. -- ["KenBloom"]''

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KenBloom — 2005-01-05 21:06:00

ECS188: I think only Barr teaches it???

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MarieHuynh — 2005-01-05 20:22:34

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