College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself

https://lemmus.org/post/21111758

Idk if this is specific to computer science or engineering, but the higher level CS courses I’ve taken basically stop caring. Most of them even make the lecture slides available for the general public. You can just access it, like my networking course just throws the slides to GitHub.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why they do that.

Even some more renowned universities do that too. Sometimes if a course is being taught poorly I can go look up slides from like Stanford or something.

I think the higher level courses simply require too much basic knowledge to understand anyway, so putting it out there will allow people in similar level to help out each other, but people who don’t have the basics will still not understand.