Introduction to Algorithms (2020)

Re:Introduction to Algorithms (2020) by yodsanklai on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:38AM (#32876135)

I did a couple of MIT projects in some of their graduate classes (OS, distributed systems) which was a lot of work. At least one week full time for each of them. And that's just the lab, I barely looked at the lectures (which were based on key research articles on the field).

But looking at the first classes of each topic to have a broad view seems like a good idea too.

I wish I could go back to school. CS is changing so fast, it's impossible to keep up to date within your free time.

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Re:Introduction to Algorithms (2020) by cbm-vic-20 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @10:45AM (#32877930)

> I wish I could go back to school. CS is changing so fast,

Is it, really? I got an undergrad degree 25 years ago, and looking at the requirements for the same at a few different universities, they appear largely the same, other than a few extra courses on ML. You still have pretty much the same math courses, theory courses, algorithm/OS/network/database courses, etc. The languages and tools have changed, but the fundamentals have not.

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Re:Introduction to Algorithms (2020) by yodsanklai on Saturday September 17, 2022 @08:03PM (#32882929)

I got my degree 25 years ago too. At that time, a lot of things which are pervasive now barely existed. Virtual machines, clouds, smartphones, javascript, CI/CD... Fundamentals haven't changed but the tools/languages/systems we need to understand to do our jobs have changed a lot. The fundamentals are important but they are a fraction of the things we need to know.

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