One of the problems with CS education today

Re:One of the problems with CS education today by look_mom_its_me on Saturday April 06, 2019 @01:15AM (#19589377)

The worst part is that no credit is given for very reputable MOOC's at all. A few years ago I took MIT's "Computational Thinking with Python" MOOC because I got my high-school kid into it and wanted to go through it with him so I could motivate and help him.

I even presented that certificate, and it was rejected: "We don't recognize MOOC's". The irony is thick and wide.

And so, again, having, at the very least, done the MIT course they force you to undergo the torture of "Fundamentals of Programming" 1 and 2 and the other truly elementary beyond description stuff.

This is truly frustrating. And support is useless. They take five days to answer any question and they must have so many students they have no time to pay attention to anything. I have literally received answers having nothing to do with my query.

Considering dropping out before it starts. The idea of spending a year and a half "learning" about loops and arrays grinds my raw to the bone.

At a fundamental ethical level it is, in my opinion, wrong.

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Re:One of the problems with CS education today by mips_avatar on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:36PM (#19591572)

I saw a new udemy course that teaches c++. It would be pretty good for me because a lot of related projects to mine are using multithreaded c++. And I think this course would help me be a better teammate. But my company wouldn’t pay for a udemy course. Not sure if that’s on my company or udemy though.

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