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This is basically why studying CS is a better idea than going to a bootcamp yo learn javascript. If you know the abstraction, you can learn the concrete.
by gnulinux 8y ago
This is basically why studying CS is a better idea than going to a bootcamp yo learn javascript. If you know the abstraction, you can learn the concrete.
- nemild 8y agoI actually think both programs have benefits and downsides. A friend (a founder of a dev tool company used by most Silicon Valley companies) and I were just laughing the other day about the issues with CS grads. His main concern with the smartest CompSci people was their bias to write code and reinvent tools, as everyting else was boring. Graduates are over focused on algorithms, and CS programs rarely teach engineering. Just a counterpoint to “bootcamps are bad.”
- hinkley 8y agoThere’s really two ways to go, if software really is eating the world. Either we accept that most companies are writing the same software and further agree that this is a stupid waste of resources. If that were to happen then we have too many programmers so everybody has enough. Or, we bifurcate into tool users and tool makers. The users need to understand ergonomics and glue and appreciate complexity. But the tool writers have to really know this stuff, and algorithms analysis too. This is probably okay, many industries work this way.
- potta_coffee 8y agoI worked with a guy who had a master's in CS. I'm self-taught and he was definitely more knowledgeable than I am...like way more. But the guy couldn't deliver. I want to learn CS stuff, and I even pick up some here and there, but ultimately I'm just too busy solving problems and delivering features, and I get paid pretty well to do it.
- scarface74 8y agoThat’s just the opposite of what my experience is. Too many comp sci majors are “architect astronaughts” who are more than willing to spend time doing everything else besides shipping code. Yes I have a comp. sci. degree.