I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months

Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by ehejsbbejsk on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:07AM (#25468391)

As a CS major, I can honestly say the ONLY thing of value was a couple of algorithm classes I took. And even then it was from a text I could have read on my own. Unless you’re what I call one-percent talent, CS theory is not going to help you much in your career.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by czbond on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:11AM (#25468445)

Broad statement, I don't agree with. Different personality types take wholly different things from the same content. I personally feel (and this may sound hubristic, but it isn't) is that the CompSci background raised me to a whole new echelon of depth of meta-knowledge and ability to problem solve large problems.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by ehejsbbejsk on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:17AM (#25468496)

That’s fair. I was also a math major so perhaps my concentration was a lot more theoretical in nature.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by ThrowawayR2 on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:27AM (#25468607)

That really depends. Where having CS knowledge matters is both low-level systems and libraries programming (working on the Linux kernel, embedded systems, building platforms or SDK stuff like AWS, etc.) and really big scaling, like at the FAANGs. Most people in this industry don't work on such things, so having CS knowledge probably does matter less to them.

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