[milesstevenson]

I almost feel as if it isn't fair. My university offers none of these things at the undergraduate level -- compilers isn't even offered at all. Although I am an advocate of this paradigm shift taking place, and am happy to be alive during a time where radical changes to education are surely to be made, these courses being offered make me really have second thoughts about putting all my time towards my university's summer courses to graduate as soon as I can. I hope they don't start charging by the time I finish undergrad.

TLDR: i jelly

[Homunculiheaded]

why not work within the system you're in? At my university a bunch of grad students got together wanting to do ml/pgm/nlp-class, so we put together a small group, added a semester project plus paper presentations to make it worthy of a grad class. It's a bummer that the coursera courses started so late, but otherwise it's working out great. We help each other out and teach each other new stuff, and in the end get credit ;)

If you can't get departmental approval for something like that, then you should at least be able to swing an easily justifiable independent study out of one of the free classes.

[milesstevenson]

That's a damn good idea. Gonna ask my advisor about it Monday.

[jcurbo]

What kind of undergrad CS curriculum doesn't have a compilers class? I thought that was a fairly common part of most CS curriculi.

[MaxGabriel]

Take udacity/coursera courses during the summer instead?

[milesstevenson]

I wish. Unfortunately I can't skip summers while trying to get a double degree, if I want to finish in any reasonable time -- or before scholarship money runs dry for that matter.