CS61B (semester) vs. CS61BL (summer)

Diivio
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:20:14 +0000

I took cs61A my first semester at Berkeley with Brian Harvey (It was taught in Scheme back then which was the greatest programming language in the world since the best CS book in the world uses it (SICP) [you’ll get this joke if you watch any of Harvey’s old lectures]). Although that book is my favorite CS book and honestly it was the best CS book I’ve had from my lower division CS classes here at Berkeley). Anyway I really liked the class and didn’t think it was that bad IF YOU HAVE THE TIME TO INVEST TO MAKE SURE YOU DON’T GET BEHIND IN LEARNING THE CONCEPTS. Now you can get away with procrastination, but I wouldn’t risk it. The wonderful part about that class was that since the languages it uses are so high level, you spend most of your time thinking about concept and very little time worrying about syntax. I think I did well in the class because I paid attention in every lecture and I actually liked reading the book and working out problems in my spare time.