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Hmm that an interesting point of view for those schools to take. I'm sure they have a reason for it, I just haven't quite figured it :-) Putting it into someth
by marak830 9y ago
Hmm that an interesting point of view for those schools to take. I'm sure they have a reason for it, I just haven't quite figured it :-)
Putting it into something I'm more familiar with(eg formally trained), if I had a chef who had just finished his degree I'd certainly expect them to understand how flavours combine, every single standard cooking technique, basic soups, stocks and sauces, as well as able to prepare all standard western food from purchasing, through preparing from the full carcass (for meats) up to presentation.
Which for me I had assumed can degrees would do for programming.
Well the more you learn I guess :-)
- ghaff 9y agoTop-tier engineering schools tend to be pretty theory-heavy. To the degree they teach programming, it's mostly a means to an end. It's not MIT's objective that you can code a working website by the time you graduate. You may be able to but it's mostly a byproduct of being exposed to programming as part of various course work. It's also the case that many/most of the students coming into a school like MIT to major in CS have been playing with computers for a long time. Which tends to lead to a course program that assumes more prior knowledge than is the norm with other types of engineering. Unfortunately, this has the effect of making it harder for students who don't have that prior background to get into computers in college. The chef example is pretty different because any cooking school is very hands on and is probably pretty light on the theoretical underpinnings of the "science of food."
- marak830 9y agoHmm okay, I appreciate the reply, I don't necessarily agree it's the best course, but then again, I'm not a call major, so it's mostly gut feeling(always a bad place to start from haha).