How difficult are CS 2110 and CS 2800 for students with little CS background?

hoonose
Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:53:38 +0000

[CS211, Cornell University](CS211, Cornell University)

Here’s the course website from last time Bailey taught it. While other profs may give you skeleton code, and you implement the rest, Bailey has you do it from scratch. While other professors may give you a pdf with detailed requirements, Bailey gives you a short paragraph and you do it.

Just as a measure, one of the programming assignments from Bailey has you implement a B-tree, a notoriously difficult data structure to properly implement, and is done in the operating systems practicum, CS 4411. Note that he only has you handle insertion, which is much much easier than deletion, but still non-trivial.