Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs

Re:Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for hi... by colemannugent on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:16PM (#15461397)

>Do those apps that 14 year olds work on require an in depth understanding of how threads work?

I am constantly surprised that when other CS students in my classes have zero idea how anything beyond the particular language we're learning works. Even in higher skill-level classes that require a fair amount of proficiency with the language if you asked what the length of the pointer they just properly used was all you would get is blank stares.

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Re:Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for hi... by xfer on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:51PM (#15461604)

> "how anything beyond the particular language we're learning works. "

and

> "if you asked what the length of the pointer they just properly used was all you would get is blank stares"

So what is it?

It's a computer science program, not learn a dozen language's quirks and implementation detail that you use for a single class to understand some concept.

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