I took CS193P when it was first offered in 2007; one of my favorite classes at Stanford because it was so hands-on. At the time few people had iPhones, so everyone in the class got a free iPod Touch for development. My final project was a photo sharing app with a Polaroid shake to reveal mechanic… lightly influenced Instagram which Kevin and I built a few years later!

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boulos 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can't seem to find the 2007 webpage (maybe it was one of the wiki-based ones?) but the 2008 syllabus looked very hands on: https://web.archive.org/web/20081208171743/http://stanford.e...

I never took 193p, but I always found 148 to be hands on, and I made it very hands on for the year I contributed: https://web.archive.org/web/20130522184434/https://graphics.... .

I regret that we put my subdivision assignment as the last one, and we allowed students to skip one assignment. Most students skipped it, but those that did the work thought it was super cool to have their own subdivision tool for making smooth meshes.

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big_toast 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you were a student in 2025, is CS193P (looks swiftUI rendering heavy) still the hands-on foundation for the next-big-tinkerer or would it look more like building around affordances of AI? (or something else).

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bbrmaley 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

how did course exist in 2007 ? App Store and sdk was released in 2008

	▲	mikeyk 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		ah you’re right, I was off by one! 2008 was the year.

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websap 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You built a solid app!

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iberator 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow. Thank you for your service

	▲	brazukadev 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. Instagram was lovely. It might be disheartening to see what it became, what it does to people's minds for a profit, the costs for society as a whole.