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Re:Online Learning: A Bachelor's Level Computer Science Prog... by bradleyjg on Thursday May 08, 2014 @12:39PM (#7716192)
That seems to be setting up an barrier for Calculus that nothing else has to face. Is there empirical evidence correlating an operating systems course to success in the field?

More generally,a lot of the value to the student in a degree is signalling -- not only the bare fact of the degree itself, but also culturally. Even if an online education can't provide the first part yet, it can provide the second one. Dropping a reference to the Church–Turing thesis into the conversation at an interview might get you the job. Such "success" is independent of whether or not knowing the lambda calculus is actually helpful day to day once you're there.

Re:Online Learning: A Bachelor's Level Computer Science Prog... by argonaut on Friday May 09, 2014 @07:39PM (#7723871)
An OS course is directly under CS. Getting asked OS questions during a systems interview is normal. Getting asked calculus questions in most CS interviews (except the specific areas of machine learning and graphics, and even then pretty much never) is unheard of. When's the last time you were asked to differentiate something, integrate something, use Taylor series, double integrals, etc? Having to maximize/minimize some function might come up, but probably in an abstract sense.