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Sadly, in my experience, teachers in Computer Science degrees rarely help one through this process.

• mechanical_fish 16y ago
  Yes. I never encountered someone who actually could have (a) sold me a CS degree, then (b) coached me properly, until after the Web was invented. The other point I'd make is that I went to grad school, and frankly in the technical subjects the professors are rarely the best coaches. Most of them have not been beginners for a long time, and their primary focus is not on how to relate to beginners. (Primary focus: How to relate to funding agencies. Secondary and tertiary focuses: How to relate to the rest of the department, and how to relate to grad students. Somewhere down near the bottom of the priority queue: Relating to undergraduates. Those profs who are primarily focused on teaching are absolute godsends, but are probably also having trouble getting tenure; such is the nature of undergraduate technical education at elite universities.) The best coaches tend to be slightly-older fellow students. Ironically, the social structure of undergraduate classes is designed to segregate students at different levels of experience; the moral of that is: You must take steps to seek out older students who are willing to offer advice.
• kkshin 16y ago
  I had great teachers that helped me with my education at my school and they truly enriched my learning experience.
  • Paulomus 16y ago
    Yes, my Uni experience overall has been kind of disappointing, but the good classes with interesting teachers have been amazing. Also the motivation of having to study has got me further than I would myself.