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Your average undergrad program... CS degree never doing anything novel in CS Is this different than any other field? I was under the impression that most BS p
by dsp1234 9y ago
Your average undergrad program... CS degree never doing anything novel in CS
Is this different than any other field? I was under the impression that most BS programs do not require novel research. That doesn't come until post graduate courses.
- edanm 9y agoI think it doesn't come until a second degree, or sometimes a graduate degree. Not post graduate.
- umanwizard 9y agoSomething was lost in translation here. Graduate degree and postgraduate degree mean the same thing, at least in the US.
- tikhonj 9y agoI don't necessarily mean publishable—that's doable but difficult in CS—but novel in the sense of requiring non-trivial creativity and insight within the field rather than replaying things you were taught directly. An example might be writing a compiler for a language you design with features not covered in the book. It's probably not publishable, but it is doing CS in a way that just following instructions in a book or from lectures to write a compiler isn't.
- maksimum 9y agoSo personal projects that extend the material you learn in courses and take 1-2 semesters to complete? I think plenty of schools already do that as part of a BA/BS graduation requirement.
- astura 9y agoYou just must have had a bad CS program, my undergraduate degree involved plenty of those types of projects.