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I'm studying a 3 year coursework masters that allows people with no background in CS (just had to do an additional semester of courses) to participate and it ai

I'm studying a 3 year coursework masters that allows people with no background in CS (just had to do an additional semester of courses) to participate and it aims to give a pretty well rounded CS education. Not a common thing, apparently. I completely agree, the motivation and environment that it gives you, the reinforcement that you're actually doing something official and serious as opposed to doing something that very few people outside of the software industry take seriously, the structure it gives you, the fellow students you meet and befriend, it's all huge. Additionally, looking at the Udacity/Coursera material, a lot of it is shallow, poorly taught, and would not have taught me nearly as well as my master's program has taught me.

wikibob 10y ago
Which program are you doing?
ortekk 10y ago
Could you please elaborate? It looks like this program is only for people that already have an CS-related degree. What courses are you taking?
consp 10y ago
Other Masters have acceptance programs for this as well. I know that Delft TU has an 'introduction' year which covers everything you need for the masters years (two). It does require a technical (of sorts) bachelor and has a low success rate due to it containing all the difficult subjects in one instead of multiple years like in the regular CS Bachelors and skipping over any form of specialization courses. Not completely undoable, but difficult non the less. I imagine there are multiple universities around the globe offering the same sort of educational entry. While it was shown in the article it doesn't matter at interviews, we (at my company) do require technical masters degrees. Though it does not need to be a CS master. The form of individual thinking combined with analytics and methodology we found to be far better at those completing (any/a) Masters degree than those without. Especially self-reliance, which is important if you do not have groups of 10+ devs working together.
mileycyrusXOXO 10y ago
I am curious what program you are taking as well.
pbrb 10y ago
Is this UChicago's program? I did a masters there without a CS background, and it was amazing. Incredibly hard, but amazing. The beauty of it is that they ramp you up on the mathematics and programming if required with a few additional classes. They also let you test out of either if you already know it. Doing that masters was one of the best things I've ever done.

wikibob 10y ago

Which program are you doing?

ortekk 10y ago

Could you please elaborate? It looks like this program is only for people that already have an CS-related degree. What courses are you taking?

consp 10y ago

Other Masters have acceptance programs for this as well. I know that Delft TU has an 'introduction' year which covers everything you need for the masters years (two). It does require a technical (of sorts) bachelor and has a low success rate due to it containing all the difficult subjects in one instead of multiple years like in the regular CS Bachelors and skipping over any form of specialization courses. Not completely undoable, but difficult non the less. I imagine there are multiple universities around the globe offering the same sort of educational entry. While it was shown in the article it doesn't matter at interviews, we (at my company) do require technical masters degrees. Though it does not need to be a CS master. The form of individual thinking combined with analytics and methodology we found to be far better at those completing (any/a) Masters degree than those without. Especially self-reliance, which is important if you do not have groups of 10+ devs working together.

mileycyrusXOXO 10y ago

I am curious what program you are taking as well.

pbrb 10y ago

Is this UChicago's program? I did a masters there without a CS background, and it was amazing. Incredibly hard, but amazing. The beauty of it is that they ramp you up on the mathematics and programming if required with a few additional classes. They also let you test out of either if you already know it. Doing that masters was one of the best things I've ever done.