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There should hopefully be a significant difference in scope and quality between the material offered at a coding school and a community college's CS program.
by sethrin 9y ago
There should hopefully be a significant difference in scope and quality between the material offered at a coding school and a community college's CS program.
- mywittyname 9y agoA CC programming degree was enough to get me a professional job at 19. It was taught by the same professors that taught CS at the 4 year affiliate, they just focused on application over theory. I can't imagine boot camps are any better. We built applications using technology stacks that were popular at the time (.NET/MSSQL, LAMP) and our capstone project involved writing actual production code for a company. Everyone who graduated the program got a job or went on to a four-year university.
- sethrin 9y ago> they just focused on application over theory. That would be exactly the criterion I had in mind. Colleges and universities should teach computer science, not coding. Dijkstra was an accomplished computer scientist and never owned a computer; there is a whole academic discipline there which should be taught in its own right. Whereas a coding school should probably lead off with source control and the command line, the university should start with lambda calculus. It's not that these things can't be just as useful, it's that they are distinct topics and neither should be used as a replacement for the other. (The unfortunate corollary to this is that it takes 6-10 years to become competent as a programmer, and a number of those years must be in the industry. We should really get a guild structure together.)