Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)

Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) by taneq on Friday October 24, 2025 @09:20AM (#45694339)

I spent my teens explaining to my mum that main memory (which used to be 'core', she interjected) was now RAM, a record was now a row, a thin client was now a browser, PF keys were now just function keys. And then from this basis I watched Windows Forms and .NET and all the iterations of the JDK and the early churn of non-standardized JavaScript all float by, and thought, 'hmm.'

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Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) by chuckadams on Friday October 24, 2025 @10:28AM (#45695017)

Evolution is a gradual thing. Branches don't have to innovate, they only have to survive.

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Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) by taneq on Saturday October 25, 2025 @02:21AM (#45701700)

True, but these core concepts are very cyclical. Every 7ish years there’s a new coat of paint on an architecture that was invented at Xerox PARC or before.

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