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Computer Science. 80% of the material in each course is useless (except maths courses and a couple theoretical ones). The rest 20% can be learned in a couple of
by spdionis 11y ago
Computer Science. 80% of the material in each course is useless (except maths courses and a couple theoretical ones). The rest 20% can be learned in a couple of afternoons. If you're American YMMV tho.
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago>80% of the material in each course is useless (except maths courses and a couple theoretical ones). Soooo what courses were you taking, in which the non-theoretical material was 80% useless? When I think about applied computer-science subjects, I think of operating systems, embedded programming, circuit design with FPGAs, networking, program optimization, compilers... all eminently useful subjects.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAlso a lot of stuff you internalize better when you get your hands dirty in it. That OpenMPI class may not be very practical or relevant on the job market, but it can teach you quite a lot about the problems and approaches in the field of distributed computing.
- spdionis 11y agoOpenMPI classes were actually very interesting. Same with e.g. prolog. I didn't mean that kind of courses.
- spdionis 11y agoFirst thing that comes to mind is MFC. Also CLIPS, graphics, operating systems (the way it was taught anyway). Most part of the java courses too.