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