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Is this really a problem specific to computer science? Medical, biology, physics.. all subjects have some harder parts. There is always someone who does not und

• chroma 11y ago
  It might be a bigger problem in fields where there's a bimodal distribution of skill. That is: There's a group that "gets it" and a group that doesn't. In subjects that mostly require acquiring knowledge, that's not likely to happen. Individual students might not know the answer to a specific thing, but they won't be completely lost for the entire lecture. But if a subject requires learning new ways to think, I could totally see this happening. These are just some preliminary thoughts, so I wouldn't give them a ton of credence. Still, I could totally see different specialties having different distributions of comprehension.
• crispyambulance 11y ago
  In an academic environment, there is nothing special about CS that makes it different from any other subject as far as the experience of the OP is concerned. In the field, however, I have found more than a few "computer professional" environments which are clearly hostile to beginners/newcomers. I suspect this is because people tend to think that the way they learned is the "best way" to learn a topic. In computer-related professions you have a lot of self-taught folks who got to where they are by hard knocks and constantly facing a profound lack of guidance. These same people often feel that newcomers should undergo the same suffering they did. It's human nature, but it doesn't have to be way.