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by sakura_k 5282 days ago
It's awesome that Stanford is offering free versions of their classes and adapting the content to the needs of those students. If Stanford is teaching the same classes with the same adaptations to their core CS students, I'd be worried too. Full time on-campus students likely want (and deserve) different adaptations. That's the really concerning thing I saw in the OP's post.

Perhaps this class happened to be taught at an easier-than-usual level. But, if professors are torn between the demands of simultaneously serving dedicated (paying or non-paying) students and casual students, the compromises won't always be to the benefit of the dedicated.