Presenting… every skit filmed during Brown’s CS intro course CS15 in fall 2009.
They’ve been a while coming but I’m thrilled to finally have them online for anyone to see. The atmosphere and attitude captured in these videos is probably unique to, and more importantly absolutely ubiquitous within, CS15.
Opening Day Skit
The skit showed/acted on the first day of class. Star Trek themed (as was the course and website) in 2009. Written by the 2009 Humor TAs.
Collaboration Policy Skit
3 short filmed skits animating the course’s collaboration policy. Written by the 2009 Humor TAs.
Star-crossed References
An in class skit personifying some of the aspects of programming and the Java environment. Includes variable scope, garbage collection, references and constants. Presumably written by TAs who’ve long since graduated.
Slush Gray
In class, Snow White themed skit. Has a linked list. The skit is a long-standing CS15 feature. Presumably written by TAs who’ve long since graduated.
Othello
The skit written and preformed on film by the group of TAs responsible for the final project ‘Othello’ in which students make the board game Othello and implement a minimax based AI.
Adventure
The skit written and preformed on film by the group of TAs responsible for the final project ‘Adventure’ in which students make a 3d randomly generating objective based maze game.
Sketchy
The skit preformed on film by the group of TAs responsible for the final project ‘Sketchy’ in which students make a basic graphics editing program. Written by previous years’ TAs.
Credits
The credits reel for all of the videos included on the DVD from which they were ripped.
Bloopers
Bloopers reel from lots of the above videos.
Cast List:
- Andy van Dam – Professor
- Alex Unger – Head TA
- Josh Kaplan – Head TA
- Kelly Newton – Head TA in charge of skit rehearsals and organization.
- Alex Feldman – Humor TA
- Alex Schultz – Humor TA
- Jason Gorelick (Video editing and filming)
- Will Cheung (Video editing and filming)
- Elinor Fung
- Gene Nelson
- Greg Young
- Lu Zeng
- Nabeel Gillani
- Jason Freeman
- Jonathan Eldridge
- Paul Sastrasinh
- Stephen Poletto
- Vazheh Moussavi
- Adam Zethraeus
Personal Notes:
I’m in the opening day skit (yes, in a corset), in ‘Star-Crossed References’, and in the Adventure project’s video (which all of the actors in had a large role in Co-writing).
TAing this course was an awesome experience during which I met and worked with some of the best people I know. Props to Andy, the HTAs and all my fellow UTAs. Crediting everyone for everything they did in the course would be impossible. You all rock. <3
[...] Thanks to Adam for putting this (and all the other videos from CS15) up on his blog. [...]
I’m the “What is this guy doing?” student at 0:35 in the bloopers reel. I’d like to make it clear that this situation was not my fault! One of the UTAs picked me to come down for the skit, but since there was no role written I just had to stand there. I guess someone thought it was an interaction rather than a skit. Thanks for letting me “clear my name” and running such an informative, useful, and enjoyable course!
We felt really bad about that… Thanks for being awesomely game