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Out of my four years of college maybe one professor coded on-screen in front of us, and it was during one of the earlier classes. It's not that I don't appreci

Out of my four years of college maybe one professor coded on-screen in front of us, and it was during one of the earlier classes. It's not that I don't appreciate or respect the traditional CS study, but as a programmer, how else are you really going to learn, than to watch a master at his craft? As I sit here in my last semester implementing a few chosen functions of a small but complete RDBMS for my databases class (i.e. most of the code was written, we just had to fill in stuff relating to a certain topic (buffer management, heap files, etc.)), it makes me wish that I would have seen how the whole system was developed from the first thought processes to the final debugging. That would have been a much better learning experience.

joshfinnie 17y ago
Well I think the issue might stem from the fact that professors in university might not be masters of the craft of coding. I am sure they lost a lot of that mastery while researching their theoretical distertations and what not. Many who show a mastery in coding are working on the next-big-thing and not furthering their theoretical knowledge. This is just my thoughts, however. I really have no experience in learning to code in university (2 semesters of intro ECE).
- yesimahuman 17y ago
  I would say that some of my professors are quite talented programmers. That or the software they use in class has been extensively worked on by many people (including grad students) for years and they have put little into it. Who knows :)
- Locke1689 17y ago
  Well I think the issue might stem from the fact that professors in university might not be masters of the craft of coding. I am sure they lost a lot of that mastery while researching their theoretical distertations and what not. I completely disagree. At least at Northwestern, the systems people know their stuff. You may be right about the theory people, though.

joshfinnie 17y ago

Well I think the issue might stem from the fact that professors in university might not be masters of the craft of coding. I am sure they lost a lot of that mastery while researching their theoretical distertations and what not. Many who show a mastery in coding are working on the next-big-thing and not furthering their theoretical knowledge. This is just my thoughts, however. I really have no experience in learning to code in university (2 semesters of intro ECE).

yesimahuman 17y ago
I would say that some of my professors are quite talented programmers. That or the software they use in class has been extensively worked on by many people (including grad students) for years and they have put little into it. Who knows :)
Locke1689 17y ago
Well I think the issue might stem from the fact that professors in university might not be masters of the craft of coding. I am sure they lost a lot of that mastery while researching their theoretical distertations and what not. I completely disagree. At least at Northwestern, the systems people know their stuff. You may be right about the theory people, though.