| 10min | Discuss/vote in: - ECE 498RS: Networking for Big Data [Proposal Form and Syllabus]
- How do MATLAB and C play into the course (and is it really an "and" - both are required - as stated in the prerequisite). How will MATLAB and C interface with the MapReduce/Hadoop topics specified in the syllabus?
- Srikant's response: Matlab and C are for simulations of algorithms for load balancing, etc. This is different from MapReduce (or Spark) which will be used to illustrate some simple parallel programs.
- Does Srikant have an opinion on having ECE 220 as a prerequisite? Does he expect students at the Junior level to be able to succeed in this course?
- Srikant's response: I am not against adding 220 as a pre-req. Some knowledge of programming will be useful, and so 220 may be appropriate. If students have taken 313 and 220, I do think they can succeed, even as juniors.
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