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Re:School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional ... by isaacfung on Sunday September 10, 2023 @09:38AM (#37455667)
I wish I had these when I first started:

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

Check the playlists that say fundamentals https://www.youtube.com/@LearnCantrill/playlists

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Re:School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional ... by Ozzie_osman on Sunday September 10, 2023 @10:28AM (#37456101)
I know this has changed over time, but MIT's CS curriculum used to be really heavy on theory and light on industry-relevant practice (of course, students can choose a lot of their own courses past the core). For example, the intro course was taught in Scheme of all languages.

Thanks for the tip about that Missing Semester course.

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Re:School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional ... by isaacfung on Sunday September 10, 2023 @12:22PM (#37457338)
I think MIT students are expected to have very strong self learning abilities and do a lot of experiments on their own.

https://www.quora.com/Who-produces-better-computer-engineers...

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Re:School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional ... by dilyevsky on Sunday September 10, 2023 @02:43PM (#37458714)
That’s what summer internships are for. Academia will be poor at teaching this anyway
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