Re:A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the e...
by vesche on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:12PM
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> I think one big problem with college here is that it's fairly easy to attend and get a degree while putting in only minimal effort.
> I think we'll fail to make college a truly valuable experience for all unless we increase the challenge
This is really interesting. I think we need to both increase the challenge of getting a degree and find other ways to make it more "exclusive". One way to accomplish this might be to make certain, non-technical majors limited somehow. That way areas of study that are over-populated like social sciences, psychology, etc are smartly minimized so they could produce fewer, more elite graduates with credentials that are more valuable. This is obviously easier said than done.
Re:A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the e...
by wtetzner on Saturday July 04, 2020 @09:14AM
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I’m not sure I’d agree with the Dragon Book recommendation. I think a better starting point might be Appel’s Modern Compiler Implementation in C/Java/ML.
> I think we'll fail to make college a truly valuable experience for all unless we increase the challenge
This is really interesting. I think we need to both increase the challenge of getting a degree and find other ways to make it more "exclusive". One way to accomplish this might be to make certain, non-technical majors limited somehow. That way areas of study that are over-populated like social sciences, psychology, etc are smartly minimized so they could produce fewer, more elite graduates with credentials that are more valuable. This is obviously easier said than done.
Also, if you're still looking for a book on compilers there's none better than the "Dragon Book" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...