Welcome to the blog of Can Sar, a Stanford CS major. This blog is made up of my thoughts on Computer Science and the computer industry, as well as ever exciting tales from my life.
I'm just watching the first CS 143 lecture online. The sylabus is already set, with all the dates of when assignments go out already known. The professor is new at Stanford and taught at Berkley for 10 years. He seems really nice and like most of my professors this quarter seems to have a good sense of humor, which I very much like. We will be working on a compiler for an Object Oriented Language called COOL (Classroom Object Oriented Language) that looks nice and simple. It is definitely not anything that I would use for my own programming, but it is not something that I would mind working with.
I know one of the TAs from CS106x and he's a really nice guy, and it is always nice, to know people in a class.
This class is going to be a lot easier to survive than CS 140, which I will probably take next quarter.
Also, the theory assignments are graded Credit/No Credit, and they are very similar to the exams. That is great.