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by CervezaPorFavor 4806 days ago
Looking at the syllabus, it looks more like "Miscellaneous Programming-Related Topics" than anything "advanced".
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Any of those topics could be taught at an arbitrarily advanced level. You could, for example, demand that each one be studied and a non-backwards-compatible alternative be designed with the wisdom of hindsight and, of course, implemented in C.

If I were considering that class for a grade, I would hope that those topics would be mostly introduced rather than dealt with in that kind of depth. (Now, if it were a non-graded, non-time-limited, free Udacity or Coursera online course that I could work my through as time allowed, I would rather have the depth. Just don't make me master one new decades-old technological toolbox per week and grade me on it.)

It does look like an overview or a survey of various topics, not sure how in depth on each topic. Would love to see videos of it.
Advanced for students, like "advanced algebra". Not for professionals. But great to teach this before kids start jobs.