{"id":6463,"date":"2015-11-18T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T18:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=6463"},"modified":"2015-11-18T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T18:40:22","slug":"what-was-it-like-to-take-cs-183b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/what-was-it-like-to-take-cs-183b\/","title":{"rendered":"What was it like to take CS 183b?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Larry Chiang<\/p>\n<p>CS 183b, it&#8217;s like I am still taking that class.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain. #HTSAS has a every video loaded up on YouTube. Yesterday, I just referred to Lec 8; #cs183b in a tweet. (citation to come&#8230; Upvotes if you comment with the tweet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yup <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeanStartup?src=hash\">#LeanStartup<\/a> works great. See <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doordash\">@doordash<\/a> &#8220;case&#8221;. Lec 8; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cs183b?src=hash\">#cs183b<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube\">@youTube<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stanleytang\">@stanleyTang<\/a>&#8216;s MVP<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarryChiang\/status\/666683267748249600\">November 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I am also still taking that class because its taught by a VC with an IQ over 200 that kinda makes it up, along the way. This was in stark contrast to Peter Thiel&#8217;s lectures which looked like a lawyer&#8217;s Congressional testimony. Prior to PG&#8217;s (Paul Graham&#8217;s) lecture 3, I b-e-g-g-e-d for an agenda. Course syllabi for classes are available and archived at Stanford. Thus, if you know a course number, you can pre-study the content and preview the lectures before you take the class. For example, #stramgt353. For example #ENGR145; Engineering 145. e.g. Engineering 245: &#8216;Lean Launchpad.&#8217; For example, the entire business school &#8220;GSB&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>YCcombinator is all about unconscious comptetance. We, as students are by nature &#8220;conscious incompetants&#8221;. We know that we do not know. But, at times, asking the teachers and mentors was like pinning down a millionaire with an IQ of 288, with the question: &#8220;How did you know to start by doing that?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Answer: I just knew.<\/p>\n<p>Also, students asked, &#8220;How can we be like James Bond?&#8221; and the response was a nonverbal, &#8216;Watch the movie.&#8217; The lack of structure in a first time class meant this to me, a student of entreprenuership: Big splattering of knowledge nuggets. No particular order. [Note: This is from the perspective of a person who was only recruited to Stanford as an athlete. I ended up going to Illinois. My IQ is below 100]<\/p>\n<p>Studying, curating and making order in Computer Science 183b, &#8220;How to Start a Startup&#8221;. Similar to a person who has to comb thru code that has not been annotated&#8230; Let us study #cs183b via the subroutines hiding inside this explosion of awesome.<br \/>\n&#8211; #dttdsBHM<br \/>\n&#8211; #cs183Do<br \/>\n&#8211; James Bond.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Do Things That Don&#8217;t Scale&#8221; #dttds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Larry Chiang CS 183b, it&#8217;s like I am still taking that class. Let me explain. #HTSAS has a every video loaded up on YouTube. Yesterday, I just referred to Lec 8; #cs183b in a tweet. (citation to come&#8230; Upvotes if you comment with the tweet \ud83d\ude42 Yup #LeanStartup works great. See @doordash &#8220;case&#8221;. Lec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}