Re:Telefunken Datenspeicher
by miki123211 on Saturday March 16, 2024 @08:59PM
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I also have a degree in CS from a Polish university, but my degree was actually taught in English.
I had a pretty good understanding of CS before I started college, so I assumed that a degree in English would be better because of how prevalent English is in this field. I... was wrong.
Most professors were not great at speaking the language. Funnily enough, the average student, whether Polish or otherwise, was far better at it than the average professor. Most of the course materials we had were direct translations of their Polish equivalents, usually done by the professors themselves, despite the fact that far higher-quality materials in English were available on the internet. Some of the translations were subtly wrong, one professor consistently used compresion[sic] when he actually meant conversion and twice when he meant times. I've even seen words, error messages and documentation snippets that were translated to Polish in the original materials, and then (badly) translated back to English.
I had a pretty good understanding of CS before I started college, so I assumed that a degree in English would be better because of how prevalent English is in this field. I... was wrong.
Most professors were not great at speaking the language. Funnily enough, the average student, whether Polish or otherwise, was far better at it than the average professor. Most of the course materials we had were direct translations of their Polish equivalents, usually done by the professors themselves, despite the fact that far higher-quality materials in English were available on the internet. Some of the translations were subtly wrong, one professor consistently used compresion[sic] when he actually meant conversion and twice when he meant times. I've even seen words, error messages and documentation snippets that were translated to Polish in the original materials, and then (badly) translated back to English.