> If you focus on high-end CompSci stuff, it won't be relevant for the 99% who spend their careers building CRUD apps. Engineer is not a guy putting things tog

> If you focus on high-end CompSci stuff, it won't be relevant for the 99% who spend their careers building CRUD apps. Engineer is not a guy putting things together on an assembly line. Engineer needs to understand things that are base for his/her field. > If you focus on tools, it will be out of date by the time the exam papers are off the printing press. My tools that are dozen years old work just fine, thank you very much. And they work faster, more transparently, and more reliably than most of modern buzz, if we're at that.