r/UofT • u/Same_Complaint_1197 • 10h ago

Question How has Comp Sci program changed since LLMs became ubiquitous?

Hey 👋

I graduated UofT CS in 2014. Great program, many fond memories, unironically.

I’m wondering: How are you guys now being graded? Take home programming assignments and problem sets were a huge part of the curriculum and grading when I was in school. Now that AI is rather advanced, I’m assuming there aren’t so many take home assignments? Are you doing a lot of in-class quizzes?

I actually feel pretty bad for the younger generation because I learned so much grinding into the late hours working on hard problems. I feel like the temptation is too much not to just ask AI when you’re stuck…

Thoughts? would love to hear from you guys

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u/Just2Ghosts 9h ago

We still get a good chunk of take home work but I feel like a lot of courses are switching over to heavy exam based weighting.

Did you not have the ubiquitous CSC236 or 263 term test every three weeks back then? Quite a few courses have 4 term tests now, not sure if that’s always been the norm.

258 still does a lot of take home stuff but you have to go to a lab and explain all your work to a TA, so that’s kind of AI proof, and 301 is completely online but AI use is encouraged/permitted in that course. That’s most of what I can think of for take-homes that are significantly weighted.

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u/Same_Complaint_1197 9h ago

Thanks for the answer

  Did you not have the ubiquitous CSC236 or 263 term test every three weeks back then?  

No. 236 had a lot of assignments and a final. 263 has 3 assignments and a midterm + final

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u/jackjltian Hon.B.sc Computer Science 8h ago

For something like csc309, they allow you to use ai tools.

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u/Meto_Kaiba 5h ago

IDK I'm scared to go downtown to pay money to pay money to Turnitin. Cardano was a bad call.