[lukatmyshu]

I went to cal and work in silicon valley filled with students from stanford. It hurts me. Especially because I am constantly impressed with the quality of the students that come out of stanford. The students I've interviewed coming out from Cal are intelligent and have learned CS but the Stanford students have so much real world experience. Because of their internships they learn about relevant technologies. Because they understand relevant technologies, they can build fun little web apps in their spare time. Fun little apps like "Zombies". Also, the grading system is significantly more lenient. As such, a student can afford to spend a little time learning javascript instead of determining if a problem reduces to a k-SAT problem. So that's my magic formula for encouraging startups (and the startup mentality). Bright Kids + Technology + free time to fool around. I don't think you need a class in that.