Question for CS students

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<p>I am going to stanford for the CS masters program and I want to know how heavy is the courseload at stanford.</p>

<p>so my questions are:</p>

<p>how hard is the CS courses overall? </p>

<p>is it possible to take more than 4 courses in a quarter?</p>

<p>how many courses do you take per quarter usually?</p>

<p>can you name several courses that are considered "killer course"?</p>

<p>what are the courses that shouldn't be taken in the same quarter?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>*how hard is the CS courses overall?
The intro series are pretty easy (106a/b) I haven't taken 107, 108 but those are a lot harder. Nothing seems "impossibly" hard though. You will have to work, it's just like any other college.</p>

<p>*is it possible to take more than 4 courses in a quarter?
4 Courses? Yes ... you can take a few 3 unit courses... 4 CS classes might be overdoing it - TOO much work.</p>

<p>how many courses do you take per quarter usually?
4 ~17-19 units</p>

<p>can you name several courses that are considered "killer course"?
CS 221 AI, CS 143(?) Operating systems, CS108 (OOP)
I think 221 is probably the hardest, the others are required and I don't think they are THAT bad from what i've heard</p>

<p>what are the courses that shouldn't be taken in the same quarter?
Well obviously the ones that are pre-reqs for each other.
but other than that you should be fine freshmen year there really aren't many hard freshman classes in CS. Although from what I hear Physics 60 series is really hard, Math 50h series looks hard too. I think CS103X is very hard as well.
So i guess don't take any of those paired with any of the following :106X, 107,108 etc.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.
your welcome</p>