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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CalTech is pass fail for first 2 years, no? How can that be soul crushing?[/quote]https://www.its.caltech.edu/~ph1a/QPs/QP1-53.pdf
These are the quiz problems for first quarter physics.[/quote]

There are 54 pages - so about 5-6 pages per week? It took me a week for one page at the GMU level and people thought I was smart. I didn't take AP Physics though - I was a HS Senior taking CS classes. The Caltech people did and this is likely a rigorous review.

I think it's doable for any Physics major if given enough time - the hard part is time. But then I also heard that these are solved with groups of smart people. I remember reading that you try it alone and you will fail;

Op - can you post a sample project/quiz for a CS course? I can compare apples to apples.[/quote]
HW for automata course: https://courses.cms.caltech.edu/cs20/a/assign.html

Labs (HW?) for the lowest level of CS available: https://courses.cms.caltech.edu/cs1/assignments/lab1/ (increment the 1 and the end)
Exam to place out of CS 1: https://courses.cms.caltech.edu/cs1/placement/placement-exam-cs1.html
2nd term CS (which some students place into): https://debuggi.ng/26wi/ (note the lecture timings, seen more easily by turning the calendar to list mode)[/quote]

The MS in CS adult that's been coding for the past 30 years would have fun; the 17 year old GMU freshman me would be spending twice or three times the time doing the work. But loving every min of it. Thanks for the insight.

Those kids are lucky and if your kids complain there are 70000 other kids that will do the work without complaint.[/quote]

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