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I have taken that specific course, and yes, it is very good. But I don't think it's always the case that professors at top schools are always better than TAs at small colleges. Top professors are almost always research-oriented and some let their teaching skills suffer.

My counter example would be the Algorithms course from Princeton with Robert Sedgewick. I would rate that as basically "just ok."

Sorry, wrote that in a rush. I meant "compared to the level of classes taken by some of my coworkers"

do you mean level of difficulty or mastery attained by the students?

the quality of the instructional materials, mastery, and level of difficulty yes.