[markus_zhang]

I second this. I'm going through a class of DS and frankly it doesn't excite me. It may be that I'm not interested in CS overall but I do believe a real work approach could be much more interesting.

For example how about a DS class dedicated for game programming? Is it possible? Is it too biased?

[rg111]

I would suggest solving competitive programming problems. Many might not be interested in joining coding competitions (I am not), but solving problems where you directly apply the stuff that you learned in textbooks is exciting.