Ask HN: Shouldn't a recent CS grad know how to throw an exception?

Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't a recent CS grad know how to throw an e... by EpicEng on Thursday August 01, 2013 @06:03PM (#6143885)

Sadly, you seem to have spent a lot of time and money on subjects you could have taught yourself in a few weeks of light reading.

Java is not computer science. Exception handling is not computer science. "Something so simple and fundamental" yes, but again, completely unrelated to computer science.

Anyone with half a brain can learn a new language via self study. I would be royally pissed if that's what I was taught in college. I'd go back and ask for a refund.

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Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't a recent CS grad know how to throw an e... by digipaper on Friday August 02, 2013 @07:30PM (#6150309)

All of CS can be learnt from books.

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Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't a recent CS grad know how to throw an e... by EpicEng on Friday August 02, 2013 @09:35PM (#6150684)

True, but not all of them are as easily learned as a new language is. This is coming from someone who didn't go to college and has been working in the industry for almost ten years now.

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Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't a recent CS grad know how to throw an e... by digipaper on Sunday August 04, 2013 @09:52AM (#6155636)

Agreed.

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