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lsjaaa - thanks! You'll hear some very good news on Tuesday morning.
Hi everyone -- Doug Tygar (the instructor) here again. I just wanted to mention that between a number of drops from the class and what looks like some more resources, I think I will be able to run the course without the…
Jacalata -- I did look into dis-enrolling students, and was told it was a non-starter. And I have to say that it is already a huge problem at Berkeley to simply get enrolled into a CS class. There are simply not enough…
Thanks for the kind wishes!
Hi Angry -- Sorry that I came off as cold. At this point, though, I really do need half or two-thirds of the students to drop this course. You raise an excellent question about why no notification went out before.…
anon, sorry I was not completely clear: I hate to make this request, but I need half to 2/3rds of the students to drop the course. I'm hoping that you will still be able to learn a lot from the class -- but I need to…
Foobar -- that's a great plan, and let me assure you there is a lot of activity going on in the background. If you want to talk about this, and you're on the Berkeley campus, I sit in Soda Hall 739. Alternatively, I…
Foobar -- that's a great question. It turns out that the university has a lot of rules about how TAs (and how much) TAs are paid, and further TAs are unionized (they are members of the United Auto Workers -- believe it…
Another_anon -- that's a great question, but I cannot answer personnel questions in a public forum -- if you want to drop by 739 Soda, I'll be happy to try to answer your question. Our course has what Berkeley EECS…
Foobar -- thanks for your suggestions. I've been trying to hire TAs for this course for two months. It is not a money issue.
Hi anonucbstudent -- actually my plan is to personally grade all the quizzes, so that is a burden on me -- not on them. I completely agree with you that the undergrad students are not at all at fault here. You pay a lot…
Hi xvedejas -- I so wish we had adequate resources so we could consider better formats for the course. I completely agree with you that this is not the optimal format.
John, that syllabus was only intended for internal Berkeley use only -- I posted it on the class blog without any thought that it would be picked up by Ycombinator. (Although, once it appeared, I did link to the topic…
Josh, thanks for your input. I'm afraid that it's a bit hard to answer your question in a public forum. If any Ycombinator readers are on the Berkeley campus and want to chat with me, I'm at 739 Soda Hall.
Hi, this is Doug Tygar here -- I'm in the instructor of the course in question. I appreciate all the comments -- but for various reasons, this course had a breakdown in finding TAs: so we have 170 students and only…