Topics central to modern programming languages and their implementation: garbage collection; memory system performance; characteristics and optimization of object-oriented languages; type systems and type inference; run-time compilation.
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CollegeOne of the best Professors I've come across in my life. Lectures are highly engaging, course structuring is perfect for grad students. The papers assigned for reading are very interesting and explores all important aspects of PL runtimes.
I really enjoyed the class. It is one of the few CS classes at UCSB that feel like they actually would matter in industry. The midterm was hard, and the slides are long making it harder to review. The labs take time to finish, but with enough effort and reading anyone can get an A on them. The quarter long project was really interesting.
Prof. Krintz's 190B class was genuinely one of my favorite classes at UCSB. The class was extremely hard and pulled a lot of information from every other CS class (Databases, Comp Architecture, Networking, etc...), but the content we learned was highly applicable and useful. Lectures were amazing and engaging, labs were hard, project was fun.
First time this class (IoT Systems) is offered. Prof Krintz is super passionate about IoT. The lectures cover a wide range of topics like Arduino and MCUs, networking protocols, and radios. The lectures are engaging, labs are fun and very useful, and group projects are self-paced, and she is always there to give assistance. Can't recommend enough
CS48 is a project class. We have teammates evaluation and counted for like 10%. But Prof. Krintz showed us how much you got from your teammates evaluation, which is awful.
Chandra is awesome! I believe that this was her first time teaching CS48, but she was absolutely amazing. Very passionate, very high energy, very nice if you talk to her. Requirements were generally pretty clear, but she also gives you a lot of freedom. If you apply yourself in the class, you will learn a LOT. If not, you won't get much from it.