The background - WILP Computer Science First Semester
I was attracted to BITS Pilani for a masters course in computer science because it has a reputation. The next best after the IITs apparently and it might be true for their campus programs but the reality is so much different for their online program. This blog is a detailed review of its teachers, how competent they are and if the management cares. In the first semester for computer science a student must take 4 courses. Object Oriented Analysis and Design Software Architecture Data Structures and Algorithm design Database Design and Applications (merged with DBMS) A student is given a handout which details the course layout/syllabus. A set of pre recorded lectures are made available to the students which correspond to the handout. These lectures are usually by pre-eminent faculty members of the BITS institute. This is followed by weekend contact hours of 2 hours for each subject. The idea of these contact hours is to resolve any queries a student might have based o...