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guiambros ◴[07 Dec 25 00:20 UTC] No.46177988[source]▶
Current OMSCS grad student; three down, seven to go. Loving the program so far.

The content is great, and most of it is available on Open Courseware, YT, etc, but here's what else you get by officially going through the program:

- the amazing community of TAs

- the assignments

- the feedback on reports & projects (either automated, or through TAs)

- the collaboration with other students on Ed, Discord, Slack, etc

- the forcing function of deadlines, having to study for exams, etc

- free access to academic libraries, IEEE, ACM, O'Reilly, etc

- access to software and services, educational packages from GitHub, Wolfram, Google Colab Pro, student discount in a bunch of places, etc

Another underrated aspect is GT's ability to preserve rigor of the program overall, despite the scale and number of students in some courses (the most popular ones have 1,000-1,500 students per semester).

If you're on the fence on applying, I strongly recommend you do. The program is affordable enough that there's no harm in trying for a few semesters to see if matches what you're looking for.

Glad to answer any questions.

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1. zero-sharp ◴[07 Dec 25 00:53 UTC] No.46178214[source]▶
In reference to the open courseware, is there a way to either just download all of the videos in bulk, or view them as part of a single video? It looks like they're broken down into ~2 minute long video clips through the Ed platform, which is very annoying.
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2. jay3ss ◴[07 Dec 25 03:49 UTC] No.46178992[source]▶
You can download the lectures from many of the courses, but not all, from the site.
3. guiambros ◴[07 Dec 25 05:19 UTC] No.46179347[source]▶
Annoying indeed. I created a script using ffmpeg to merge all the 2-min clips into a longer video per chapter[1], so I could watch the lectures on my commute.

You may need to tweak for different courses, but I've used for ML4T, GIOS, and ML, and it has been incredibly helpful.

[1] https://github.com/guiambros/vidcat