this course is actually quite different from the fall course the fall course is kind of bad ngl. too much of the marks are based on participation. for example they mark based on discussion posts so there are so many discussion posts that dont need to exist. sometimes people get called in class which is really bad for social anxiety the winter course though? great. the marking scheme is actually fair and the tests are easy while still feeling useful. the only problem i have is the history stuff is useless. im not opposed to teaching that but it should NOT be marked in quizzes and tests

all the content is done in haskell. this language is barebones and while it is useless in real world scenarios, learning to program without basic features like loops can really help

take it in the winter

Had to learn a weird language called Elm, which was poorly taught. They even threw in upper-year algorithms in the first few weeks. Also, heavily subjective and disorganized.

Not useful at all. Elm was used in Anand’s own code environment with varied packages, so it is near-impossible to even use a code outside of it. Also, Elm in itself is hardly useful at best. Other schools are doing Java, JS, etc in first year… Us? Elm!

Seems nice, but really doesn’t teach well.

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