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I don't think there is a field in the world where practice and theory is as far apart as software engineering. Having a CS degree is an entirely meaningless ind
by rapsey 10y ago
I don't think there is a field in the world where practice and theory is as far apart as software engineering. Having a CS degree is an entirely meaningless indicator of that person having any clue what to do at their job.
Some schools are obviously better than others. The good ones are expensive as hell though. The bad ones are nothing but a mountain of useless shit.
- spork12 10y agoCompletely agree.
- emptyVal 10y agoI don't have a single college credit, but theory is important for a lot of non trivial shit, for example cassandra, dynamo, project voldemort all use chord+ gossip protocols , i. What about concurrency and parallelism CSP, and the actor model are from where academia. What about Zookeeper, Chubby, Etcd where do Raft and Paxos come from academia. You don't need a degree yes but theory is relevant however yes a CS degree is not a good indicator of any skill and too many CS educated people can't code worth a damn. Theory is not useless as long as you can implement it.