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I’ll be taking a course through the UW on software design and C++ this summer. I took it last fall but was doing so badly at the end, I withdrew. This time I am taking it as a distance learning class: this means I don’t to try and stay awake during yawn-inducing lectures and slide shows from 6 to 9 PM.
What’s UW’s computer science program like?
I ask because CS seems like a field that hasn’t entirely been codified into a common curriculum. The curriculum at Georgia is a highly theoretical one, focusing on stuff like compiler design, AI, and database theory.
The anecdotal explanation for this was that to get approval from the Board of Regents for a second CS program within the state (to Georgia Tech’s), UGA had to build their curriculum to contrast with Tech’s, which I’ve heard is more practical and focused on embedded systems, hardware integration, and the like — as I suppose you would expect from an engineering school.