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How do you get a master's in computer science without knowing how to operate a computer?

• Someone 16y ago
  The same way you get a master's in astronomy without knowing how to operate a telescope.
  • commieneko 16y ago
    Years ago I had the opportunity to host a professional astronomer at a star party at a dark site. He was really excited because he had never seen the milky way before; at least not with his own eyes. He was totally blown away. Most of the regulars were complaining about the transparency that evening, but to this guy it was a revelation.
• sigstoat 16y ago
  oh, if you want them, most places have plenty of courses that are all reading papers, or talking about managing development, or crossover with cogsci departments. then you do a thesis on how developers are affected by some lights which change color depending on the number of bugs in their tracking system.
• dkarl 16y ago
  His Master's was about algorithms and was entirely mathematical. His undergrad was in electrical engineering, and it involved plenty of hands-on work... but he got both his degrees in the 1970s. There's a pretty good chance Windows was not part of the curriculum.