Irene ZhangMar 13

Just found the reading materials from my first systems class. 😍 Pretty great list. I loved the class and many people are surprised that it didn’t involve any coding whatsoever.

(Sorry for the lack of alt text, it’s too long for Mastodon’s limits. The photos are of a bound book with the reading list replicated here: https://web.mit.edu/6.033/2007/wwwdocs/reference.html)

Show threadMichael EngelMar 13
@irene Whenever I see reading lists like these, I wonder if students really read all of the papers. I know my students here in Germany wouldn't exactly be happy if they had to read that much stuff – and many students sadly barely touch anything beyond the provided lecture slides and exercises...
Show threadIrene ZhangMar 13
@me_ I was just talking to @elba about that! And yes, I did get the sense that people read the papers. I certainly did based on my notes that I wrote in the margins. @dan would know better, he actually taught the class. But this class was certainly not an outlier even for classes that included coding labs. The senior level OS, database and distributed systems classes have a very similar format but with coding labs and a project.
Show threadDan PortsMar 13

@irene @me_ @elba Well, I'm realizing that the last time I taught that class was 15 years ago (yikes!), but my impression was that most people did read all the papers. Or at least most of them (hey, the students are busy!)

I don't know what the students are like these days, but it looks like the class is still taught using basically the same format.

Show threadDev
@dan @irene @me_ @elba Dan we need to get the band back together, for one last grad class
Mar 13 at 8:30pmWeb
Show threadDan PortsMar 13
@dev @irene @me_ @elba my relationship with the local university is now such that they no longer ask me to teach their classes, grad or otherwise
Show threadDevMar 13
@dan @irene @me_ @elba woodland university time? (If that doesn’t ring a bell I forgor the name of your house)
Show threadKarl StatzMar 13
@dev @dan @irene @me_ @elba we starting a pirate college?
Show threadJonathan YuMar 13
@dev @dan @irene @me_ @elba All I know is that Miso is the Dean
Show threadEric EideMar 14
@dan @dev @irene @me_ @elba "Many are not called, but few are not chosen." I think I read that somewhere?
Show threadIrene ZhangMar 14
@eeide @dan @dev @me_ @elba should I offer to teach a class on sexism in CS? I have a great case study of how not to encourage women to stay in their PhD