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Originally posted by The_Dude
UT (Univ of Texas-Austin) is an "average school" for CS or what?
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Read Nature, Science etc., U. T. is hardly "average" - Edsger Dijkstra taught there! Now, of course you *are* competing down the road with TAMU which currently has Stroustrup (Hawking taught there, too, for a little bit). I'd suggest you go to talk with Dr. Alan Cline or Dr. Hamilton Richards (Cline is a bit krufty, Richards is an excellently lecturer - don't miss his Functional Language course!). Dr. Arbogast (TICAM) is also a good resource for more "advanced" topics.
The answer is that even a few years ago the freshman course was pretty bi-modal (CS304): T% would fail with a "0" and 1-T% would pass with a "100". There is no good way to know if you're any good. Also, the classes are (were?) HUGE - the largest I was in had >750 students.
TIO - I'm not sure if that's the way CS is at U. T. now, but a few years ago you were simply expected to know how to program - you either learned in class or you took an C/C++ course, they're not in the basics and I personally never took one.