Comment by pastaguy1
14 days ago
> I had two EE roommates in college, their exams were HARD, but their home-projects were easy compared to CS (less projects overall as well).
Maybe that's just a result of EE take-home projects being less practical? Hold on, let me walk on over to my wire bonding station ...
In my applied EM class in college, we had a year-end project in which we built an antenna of a specified type (e.g., helical, corner reflector, etc ... ). The final exam was essentially a do or die transmitter hunt. We had a lot of open lab time to do it. But that project was an exception, not the norm.
I think it is because CS is such a broad field, every little nook has a ton of different algorithms to study and, like you said, it is not that hard to tell students to implement algorithm X as projects.
While my EE roommates would often just spend their time solving the same types of problems from their text books over and over again. My roommates had a few lab classes where they did get assignments, but they were usually pretty small and couldn't be done at home.