Paul Hilfinger

As the semester draws to a close, many students in "Data Structures," or Computer Science 61B, have begun voicing concerns over the course’s structure and the staff’s apparent lack of response to their complaints.

Procrastination is the reason to which Steven Tong, another sophomore, attributes the 300-minute office hour wait when students tried to finish computer science professor Paul Hilfinger’s “small finger,” project zero assignment.

...for CS students like me — those who don’t really like CS — coding leads to lasting self-doubt and only temporary satisfaction. I often feel a high level of anxiety and frustration after hours of debugging — work that may not even yield any useful results...I become skeptical and critical of myself.

A combination of sleep deprivation and my first shifts at the Daily Cal have led me to a theory more intriguing than the Illuminati: copy editors make excellent coders.

Before they were our illustrious gatekeepers of knowledge and information, UC Berkeley professors and lecturers were just like us: scraping by on hard-earned tips, scoring coveted research positions and all the while scrubbing the dishes of some stranger.

Current enrollment in UC Berkeley's introductory computer science course has increased from 1,568 students last fall to 1,762 students this semester.

Last week, three UC Berkeley students traveled to Ekaterinburg, Russia, to compete in an annual international programming contest.

For the first time in five years, a team of UC Berkeley programmers will head to Russia this summer to compete against some of the world’s best collegiate coders at an international programming contest.