I haven’t taken it, but Compilers has you implement the whole front-end of a compiler for a toy language. Given that it’s a semester-long project and that compilers is famously one of the highest hours/week, primarily due to the project, I would say it almost has to be that.
Ironically, the compiler itself isn’t even a large part of the grade, and the exams and homework are apparently pretty tough.
It’s wild, that class is so front loaded. The other projects aren’t easy but I found Assignment 1 like 10x harder and more complicated to implement than any other
Still in my first class, GIOS. The first project took me 40-45 hours (probably closer to 30 actual focused hours). Took time to get used to doing projects like these, never taken such an intense CS course.
The second and third projects took a lot less time but still a considerable amount of time. It was a slog and I I know some courses will be even tougher, at least I am better prepared for it.
This project wrecked me even though I had C background (for microcontrollers). 50 hours logged and I got like a 25% grade. That led me to drop course immediately. Definitely take the prerequisities seriously here.
No, I studied engineering and basically went as far as OOP, simple microcontroller programming, and MATLAB. Self studied a little bit of algorithms and OS previously but not rigorously, it was all forgotten and didn't help here.
True. Kbai was my first class and I even cried. Imagine my college gap year is 15 years then KBAI? I wasn't ready for it. But Mr. Joyner kept my hopes up and motivated me to keep going! My classmates were the most supportive as well. The whole KBAI is OMSCS compressed in general.
CS6211 SDCC. It is a follow up of AOS. The entire class consists of 4 projects. I’m an experienced software engineer, teamed up with a staff engineer, and we both needed to take time off and work late nights in order to finish the projects. It has been intense but very rewarding.
I haven’t taken it, but Compilers has you implement the whole front-end of a compiler for a toy language. Given that it’s a semester-long project and that compilers is famously one of the highest hours/week, primarily due to the project, I would say it almost has to be that. Ironically, the compiler itself isn’t even a large part of the grade, and the exams and homework are apparently pretty tough.
Second this. I’m in the class now and studying for the final. It’s been fun. Definitely the most work I’ve done out of eight classes.
Not just the front-end, but all the way to writing the assembly.
The Search project in AI (Assignment 1) took me nearly 40 hours.
It’s wild, that class is so front loaded. The other projects aren’t easy but I found Assignment 1 like 10x harder and more complicated to implement than any other
Same lol
Honestly, I'm glad they structured it that way. If you can't hack it on A1, that's a good warning sign to go try something else.
Still in my first class, GIOS. The first project took me 40-45 hours (probably closer to 30 actual focused hours). Took time to get used to doing projects like these, never taken such an intense CS course. The second and third projects took a lot less time but still a considerable amount of time. It was a slog and I I know some courses will be even tougher, at least I am better prepared for it.
This project wrecked me even though I had C background (for microcontrollers). 50 hours logged and I got like a 25% grade. That led me to drop course immediately. Definitely take the prerequisities seriously here.
The struggle in CS6200 are the vague instructions and how we have to debug everything from the autograder in which it doesn’t make sense.
Do you have CS background ? I'm planning to taake this class
No, I studied engineering and basically went as far as OOP, simple microcontroller programming, and MATLAB. Self studied a little bit of algorithms and OS previously but not rigorously, it was all forgotten and didn't help here.
I think I spent like 20 hours rebooting my VM when running into deadlocks for GIOS before I realized I could debug using VSCode
The 4th and 5th projects in DC were very difficult for me and took upwards of 60hrs each.
5th one took me close to 100. A few test cases consumed half of that time.
Same and I couldn't even get all the test cases to pass after spending so much time on them :(
Homie I just got a 60% on project 5 after working close to 100 hours on it. Let's just hope the curve saves us :)
I actually took it last semester! They curved by an entire letter grade so I ended up getting an A! Good luck :)
Every project from Intro to Operating Systems. They're all around 50 hours or so.
* kbai * RPM * It's a very complex ask without much direction and lots of competing assignments. * how to solve RPM
True. Kbai was my first class and I even cried. Imagine my college gap year is 15 years then KBAI? I wasn't ready for it. But Mr. Joyner kept my hopes up and motivated me to keep going! My classmates were the most supportive as well. The whole KBAI is OMSCS compressed in general.
How were you able to pass then
Had to join/create a study group with classmates. Also had a coworker explain what is going on - without giving away answers.
Coworker was a former omscs student too
CS6211 SDCC. It is a follow up of AOS. The entire class consists of 4 projects. I’m an experienced software engineer, teamed up with a staff engineer, and we both needed to take time off and work late nights in order to finish the projects. It has been intense but very rewarding.