Re:Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform
by dehrmann on Friday July 18, 2025 @12:07AM
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> The computer science graduate will generally not even try to figure out a problem in completely unfamiliar territory.
In my computer architecture class, there was a lab/test where you were expected to implement strlen() in SPARC assembly. It was open-doc, but they intentionally hadn't taught some of the opcodes you'd need to inspect a single byte. Maybe 25% of the class poked around the docs and found something, but the rest floundered and were quite angry at how "unfair" it was.
In my computer architecture class, there was a lab/test where you were expected to implement strlen() in SPARC assembly. It was open-doc, but they intentionally hadn't taught some of the opcodes you'd need to inspect a single byte. Maybe 25% of the class poked around the docs and found something, but the rest floundered and were quite angry at how "unfair" it was.