Closed riceeatingmachine closed 1 year ago
I think that NPTEL does a great service by making so many courses available. I would be happy to have an RFC that identifies an NPTEL course as the best option for a given topic.
RFCs that propose multiple unrelated changes to the curriculum are difficult for contributors to evaluate and discuss. Such RFCs should be broken into multiple different RFCs to enable clear discussion of a single issue at a time. (It can also be helpful to stagger the introduction of such RFCs over time, just to enable contribution to each at a time)
Keep in mind the advice from the contributing guide:
Successful critiques of the curriculum will point out ways that OSSU is failing to uphold these guidelines. Examples are:
- OSSU lists a course as required when the course topics are elective in the curricular guide.
- OSSU does not having a course to cover required topics from the curricular guide.
- OSSU lists multiple courses that cover the same topics when fewer courses could suffice.
- OSSU recommends a course to teach a topic, but there exists a higher quality course that covers the same material.
Note:
The crypto course that I made was rejected under https://github.com/ossu/computer-science/issues/1067 for not conforming to western social norms.
The RFC was closed because the proposed course did not adhere to OSSU's Code of Conduct, as is made clear in the RFC.
Split 2 points. Will split all of them in a staggered way as suggested.
Problem: There are unfortunately some courses in the OSSU that are not up to par and are only there because no better alternatives have been found.
Duration: 2 months
Background: There are certain courses in the curriculum that aren't particularly great but have been kept due to lack of better courses. I've been scouring the internet and I found NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) which contains a lot of computer science courses from The Indian Institute of Technology - the highest tech universities in India. Think of it like OCW for the IITs.
They are generally though to be high quality courses in India, and this is the best university here. The downside is that there are not many practical assignments on NPTEL unlike their university counterparts.
Proposal:
So the crypto section can look like: