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The CS Masters Degree Distraction
- paulgb 16y agoInteresting, I wonder where this was? I'd have expected grad school to be way more theoretical and research-oriented than that.
- angrycoder 16y agoYeah, that is what stuck out from this article, I had to take the majority of those courses 10 years ago to get my Bachelors. A WWW Programming course to get your Master's? In Perl? In 2009?
- raffi 16y agoI think of web development (SQL, JavaScript, your favorite VCS) as something you'd learn in a vocational setting or on your own. What the author is describing sounds like someone getting a degree in mechanical engineering just so they can change the starter in their car. It's not necessary. I studied CS at the Masters level and found two years was a very short time to get exposed to a lot of things that our tools haven't even begun to address.
- AKbhat 16y agoAnother post in the long line of "How bad/usless/etc Masters Degree in CS are" Sadly most of the posters dont mentions the name of the university,If you did MS from 30+ rank university then its downright pointless to expect significant results. Also the subjects mentioned in this post are downright childish. This is what a student at a top university takes in a year long Master CS course: Fall: Advanced Machine Learning, Introduction to Database Systems, Software Engineering , Colloquium, Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers (Business school course) Spring: The Architecture of Large-Scale Information Systems, Advanced Topics in Machine Learning, A Significant Research Project and Above is an example of course work a graduate student doing masters at Cornell would generally pursue
- mwerty 16y agotl;dr: cs != programming web sites