Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science

Check the dates: the MIT course is "As taught in 2008".

The course is copied from CMU's. I have a friend who TAed the first iteration of the MIT course and was a former 251 ta @ CMU. The goal of the mit course was to offer their students the same experience as CMU's class because it was highly successful and they relied heavily on my friend's experiences as a ta at cmu to build the course.

In general, I view this as a good thing. Universities should take the best material they can find and offer them to students even if it's not original.

The course is copied from CMU's. I have a friend who TAed the first iteration of the MIT course and was a former 251 ta @ CMU. The goal of the mit course was to offer their students the same experience as CMU's class because it was highly successful and they relied heavily on my friend's experiences as a tax at cmu to build the course.

In general, I view this as a good thing. Universities should take the best material they can find and offer them to students even if it's not original.

This was one of the greatest courses I took at CMU, when Dr Stephen Rudich lectured. The course's fame derived not only from the challenging material, but all the stories and magic tricks Dr Rudich would perform. It's not clear from the MIT course description if the latter is included.