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by wavemode 720 days ago
I don't know how much this applies to other institutions, but speaking personally, my undergrad Operating Systems course very much threw the students to the wolves.

It wasn't one of those "memorize the textbook and you'll be fine" type of classes. It was a "do a bunch of independent research and figure a whole lot of things out for yourself" type of class.
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michaeljx 720 days ago
Same here. After doing Java the entire first year, the second year we did a 6-hour course for C, and then had to write a ram-disk for a toy Linux operating system. We had to write the code, compile, boot in the new system, run a specific test suite, and repeat till the test passed. I am still not sure how we got the tests to pass, but I remember praying to the computer gods at one point, as well as a bunch of boot&hope development.
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StefanBatory 720 days ago
At my uni that class has ~30% passing rate depending on teacher.
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