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> A proper CS degree teaches you how to think Any degree that claims it teaches you how to think should ring the snake-oil alarm. > how to solve insanely hard
by wisty 11y ago
> A proper CS degree teaches you how to think
Any degree that claims it teaches you how to think should ring the snake-oil alarm.
> how to solve insanely hard problems, and how to do so with a team of other smart people - often with different personalities
So how do they teach that? Or does that just mean they got a few group projects, where smart people bump into each other but don't really learn to solve problems in a team?
Unis tend to suck at teaching teamwork. Though they tend to be pretty good at teaching algorithms and systems (which are good to know, and don't go out of date too quickly).
- abalashov 11y agoWell, philosophy more or less stakes its claim to value as an undergraduate program solely on that premise. Whether it actually teaches one to think, what exactly that means, and whether it's possible to teach someone to think who hitherto didn't know how to think, are of course questions that trouble it, but they're all distinct and seemingly empirical issues.