CS61B (semester) vs. CS61BL (summer)

Thomas_1
Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:03:12 +0000

You almost never need language-specific programming knowledge. If you have good “general” programming knowledge you can pick up any language within a couple of hours.

Will you be at a disadvantage later on? It depends on your background. If you don’t have real-world programming experience or know how to code a larger project from scratch you’ll get a lot out of the real 61B.

If you do have real-world programming experience and maybe have worked on a couple of larger projects then I don’t think you need 61B anyway. The data structures part is very basic and will be reiterated in upper-divs if needed, or is easily looked up online. I had worked as a developer before I took 61B (with Hilfinger) and I didn’t learn anything in that class, I just hated the long assignments.