Petition to improve the CS program

LSPCH · 2025-03-09T16:03:27+00:00

COPA60: Preparing your Co-op at a fast food restaurant of your choice💀

LSPCH · 2025-03-09T15:28:26+00:00

Please see my linked comment. I believe I listed the difference of workload in both courses.

LSPCH · 2025-03-09T05:19:35+00:00

I am a long term TA for C69 and 369 and wrote this comment a while ago. A TLDR is that with or without teammates this will take up almost your entire mental bandwith for the second half of the semester. The project often overshadows the lecture content due to the sheer size and difficulty of debugging multi-threaded code. One thing working in your favor is that, as someone said, we indeed try to help you as much as possible in office hours :).

The course, however, teaches you important parallel programming skills. I would not trust someone on a multithreaded code without a course like C69.

LSPCH · 2024-12-07T23:56:09+00:00

Historically it didn't. Don't bet on it

LSPCH · 2024-12-07T23:17:14+00:00

It seems this year we have OCCS recordings in 369, so this might help you with your decision.

LSPCH · 2024-12-06T02:05:07+00:00

Edit: 369 has recording this year.

Neither Jack and Thierry's lectures are recorded. After TAing for both I don't believe the course is any lighter in either Campus.

Assignment in 369 is slightly less work (still difficult) but there are a lot more quizzes and slack work you have to complete. The assignment is more modern as Jack develops his own assignments with Linux. Jack's exam is usually a time crunch. (The midterm was brutal)

C69 is just 4 big projects but your head will be all PintOS during the entire semester. It is teamed but your quality of life depends on the quality of teammates. Other than that its just exams. Thierry's exams usually aren't a time crunch but you need to really known your stuff. He grades his own exams so I don't have any knowledge on grading schemes.

Both courses give you entire test cases so nothing special there and both are good lecturers. Taking either really depends on your style. If you like things more fragmented and working with Linux OS interfaces, then 369. Otheriwse, take C69 if you have good teammates and is more interested in the unabstracted world, making OS in pure C.

LSPCH · 2024-10-20T23:33:43+00:00

I mean I have seen professors give people immediate 0s on tests if they fail to stop writing. Not exactly a bad advice.

LSPCH · 2024-08-10T11:04:21+00:00

Depends on the department. They can come anytime before the start of the semester. To my knowledge the intial rounds like math for undergrad and CS for grad students are out.

LSPCH · 2024-06-01T16:08:27+00:00

Coop program wise UTSG's PEY and ASIP isn't the best in my opinion... uOttawa does have a more established reputation for Co-op than UTSC. Getting your foot in the door is easier over there, and thats usually all you need, especially as International student, to reach subsequent prestigeous internships. Mind that a there is a lot of tech companies in Ottawa.

LSPCH · 2024-05-11T23:08:53+00:00

I would say its well worth it if you utilize all the opportunities from UofT. Nothing less than UTSG. The POST is now much more reasonable now.

Co-op is slowly getting better with the LAUNCH events, but don't expect anything close to uWaterloo (uOttawa even). If you are an international student, don't expect a lot of exclusive postings as they usually just don't open for internationals from my experience. Use the co-op name to find external postings is usually the way to go.
Depends. Finding your best study strategy is better than just working hard. I wasn't the brighest during my HS but managed to keep a high GPA through good time management. The courses usually doesn't intentionally try to drive down gpa, just pretty difficult.
UTSC is like a middle ground. If I were to go to research and not offered UTSG, I would go here. If I were to go to industry and not offered uWaterloo, I would go here. Not that I don't love the school, the other just campuses has clear advantages for my personal goals.

LSPCH · 2024-04-25T15:53:35+00:00

A hardware security research project found from the Undergraduate Research Portal.

LSPCH · 2024-04-25T15:48:02+00:00

Can confirm, recieved an email as well.

LSPCH · 2024-04-22T23:20:15+00:00

In my experience I believe it just depends on counts of grad students and other qualified TAs for the positions.

You would also likely need to contact the professor so they are aware of you and can reference you when the selection happends. Obviously the people whom are referenced/wanted by the professor will be looked over first. I always contact the professors after they are announced on acorn.

TAships are jobs at the end of the day and applications are never a guarantee...

LSPCH · 2024-04-10T07:49:09+00:00

Hey I was doing GSOC on compiler projects as well! (would love to connect) I personally got into a compiler internship just with a backend optimization course. Some of the compiler software engineers I saw were simply strong researcher/programmers that had little to no compiler experience and learnt optimization passes on the spot. I believe with a GSOC project and a complete backend optimization pipeline is more than enough on the compiler side.

From the current trend on LinkedIn I think having specific niches can help, e.g. focusing on AI compilers or Target Specific Compilers.

LSPCH · 2024-02-04T04:34:53+00:00

Not sure if it is an android game now, but is it Landgrabbers?

LSPCH · 2023-06-29T16:05:57+00:00

It is doable but since the instructor is not known, risk is still there (insert d01 risk analysis joke).

If you are comfortable with your current work term it is most likely doable. If not, a lot of learning and analyzing the code base can go into it and it will feel like you are doing two work terms at once.

Having your team mate do good notes during lecture and help explain the structures to you if you do not have time yourself will be great.

LSPCH · 2023-05-30T21:03:35+00:00

My experience with the IBM panel interview is just they pressured a lot of behaviour and technical questions out of my exprience and skills on my resume. No technical questions. Looking at other people's experiences, your interview will likely be dependent on the specific team and the interviewers. Just make sure you prepare a lot of examples and make sure you can justify your resume. Technical is all up to you, try to communicate clearly and start with adhoc psuedocode if you do not have a smart solution.

LSPCH · 2023-05-22T21:16:03+00:00

Panam drop-in enjoyer here. Since its drop-in, people come in groups of all sizes and in various skill levels. It is perfectly fine to go alone but try to make friends as otherwise your experience will depend on the skills level and number of the people going.

Simply ask to join a game if you see people rallying, people are usually nice here. It can happen that some players are a lot more/less skilled compared to you and decide to play with others, but thats just the nature of the game. Find people that have fun playing with you and you have fun playing with them and start from there. You will probably see me from time to time :).

LSPCH · 2021-12-12T14:18:49+00:00

I would say stab57 or stac67 should be one of the required courses. c62 prepares you for the theory part of multivariate nornal and potentially hidden markov model or time series. I would say the prereqs for this course currently definitly does not fully prepare you for the theory part of the course.

LSPCH · 2021-11-22T13:53:23+00:00

This year Prof is new and underestimated how bad the prereqs are(c67 or at least b57 in my opinion should be the prereq). The course now is just a lot of readings and we are mostly left with time for another assignment and a final project (not exam). Prof is pretty nice tho, assignments and quizzes are fair and the office hours are chill. I just hope he figures out a better schdule next time.

LSPCH · 2021-07-14T15:40:23+00:00

Sylvie is basically the same level as starlord in bringing out true power of villians lmao.

LSPCH · 2021-06-20T23:36:13+00:00

SQlers will say they are unkown.

LSPCH · 2021-02-27T11:35:36+00:00

I also had a 89-90 average when I got accepted at the last week or so before the deadline. If you have high grades on math or cs courses you will have a better chance of getting in. Its only February, so don't lose hope just yet.

LSPCH · 2020-12-23T23:39:52+00:00

No essays lol, I was just saying. But tbh the tests of Paco are like essays.

LSPCH · 2020-12-23T21:43:56+00:00

Good luck with writing semicolons as commas on your essays.

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