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Re:Ask HN: What if I missed the good stuff in my undergradua... by mian2zi3 on Thursday August 26, 2010 @09:26AM (#1635843)
I couldn't agree more. Every time I see a question like this, I have to hold back a rant. What, didn't they teach you to read at your liberal arts college? How many classes do you have to take before you see the pattern? Here's the syllabus, read the book, go to lectures that rehash the book (except for the occasional, exceptional class), do some exercises, review for a mid-term and a final? Don't know what book(s) to read? What, didn't they teach you to do any research, or use Google?

Worried your education is incomplete (How could it not be?) or unknown unknowns? Do some research! (Research? Again?!) Every CS program in the world has their curriculum online. See what they think you should be learning. You had to pick classes, right? Didn't you consider the options then? Find discussion of CS curricula. This post by Philip Greenspun springs to mind:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2004/10/02/what-would-an-...

Oh, wait. Holding back a rant. I guess I didn't this time.

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Re:Ask HN: What if I missed the good stuff in my undergradua... by mian2zi3 on Thursday August 26, 2010 @09:53AM (#1635898)
> ... you see the pattern? Here's the syllabus ...

I didn't mean to say that's the best way to learn. But it is certainly A way to learn, and one that should be (utterly) familiar to you.

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