EECS 482

482

FA14, Prof. Chen

I thought this course was a course that should be a part of the core curriculum, since it was so useful. During the course of the class, you learn all about operating systems and the intricacies, which is an important topic to learn if you truly want to understand how a computer works. This was also the first pair programming course that I had been a part of, which was a very eye opening experience. I not only learned a lot about operating systems, but I learned git and also how to make pair programming work well. If you want to learn more about the course itself, there is a syllabus from the semester I took it, linked here: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~pmchen/eecs482/syllabus.html. The one frustrating thing about this course is that, since some of the concepts are tricky, office hours were usually packed and there did not seem to be adequate staff. Also, since there was only one submission allowed per day, starting early was definitely important in this class. Exams were also very, very difficult. I took this class with 388 and a german course (12 credits) and it was by far one of the hardest semesters I've ever taken. DO NOT take this with a heavy course load. This class was like taking 281+370+stats 250 combined. The tests were HARD. Do not take this course lightly.