Hints for Computer Science at Berkeley

Here is some collected wisdom for the undergraduate CS classes I took at Berkeley, delivered without context or explanation. (Note that some classes have changed since I took them.) Most likely, you won’t get it until you’ve already finished the class.

Movie Review: X-Men: First Class

I wasn’t planning to see X-Men. I never got into the series, despite liking Patrick Stewart from Star Trek. But a couple of my old high school friends invited me, and it’s always good to see them again, so…

It was fun, it had good visual effects, it’s not so true to the original comics (apparently), but it feels like a successful “reboot”, and the series didn’t even really need rebooting. Well, apparently the one about Wolverine wasn’t great. Whatever.

Before I actually review the movie, I’m going to link to this New York Times article that my estimable…

Achievement Unlocked

For fun, I decided to make a list of things I had done at Berkeley, in the style of “achievements” from video games. (Achievement addicts, see here.)

What have you done? If you’re still here, what do you have left to do? And if anything’s missing from this list, tell me and I might add it!