Re:The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
by tkiolp4 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:42AM
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Indeed. While I think learning algorithms and ds is a non-negotiable thing, in 90% of the companies out there in 90% of the situations one will never have to write a binary search from scratch or implement a queue from scratch. On the other hand, profiling, debugging, glueing things together via bash, etc., that’s what distinguishes you from the colleges who only write passable code.
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Re:The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
by starkd on Saturday February 25, 2023 @11:15AM
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But writing implementing some of those basic data structures is some of the funnest things to do in uni.
Re:The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
by Encrust6221 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:23PM
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I dropped out after a year of college and have since weaseled my way into a dev position, your observation could not be more true in my experience. I've since strongly considered going back to school for a degree, but as interesting and probably useful some of the material may be, I'm not convinced it's worth it as an investment into making me better at my job.
If only I could use 529 funds on some of these online course providers.