I went to Georgia Tech 2016-2020. CS 2803, 4803, and 8803 are all codes for special topics courses that haven't been standardized or established, so the class you linked is pretty obscure. The reddit thread you linked is 9 years old. I think the heavy emphasis on OOP in the GaTech CS intro sequence is the most outdated bit, with the worst offender being the "Objects and Design" course with lectures involving a dated and useless picture of enterprise Java design and a group project involving either programming an Android app or a JavaFX app: https://gt-student-wiki.org/mediawiki/index.php/CS_2340
Whoops, I could've sworn something on there said "May 3", my mistake. Guess it's just the Wiki, not the Reddit thread, that was relevant.
GT circa 2001 had an intro OO course that was "use classes to model airlines and seats for reservations in Java" that was... dated... even for then, sounds like not a ton changed very rapidly. ;)
