by markus_zhang 5 hours ago

IMO many CS classes should be lab based already, except the theory heavy ones. I still wonder why MIT needs to test students of OS courses on paper when the labs cover a lot of the ground. If I can do well in the labs I wouldn’t bother to memorize stuffs for the exams.

fn-mote 4 hours ago | [-1 more]

You have to test to make sure the student who you are giving the grade to is the student who did the work.

Without certifying someone’s abilities, the degree doesn’t mean much.

nothercastle 2 hours ago | [-0 more]

The degree doesn’t mean much and never did. Minimum bar that’s all

kevin_thibedeau 3 hours ago | [-0 more]

CS is a science of computation curriculum, not programming. You can have automation do all the work for you in the labs.