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Here's a question from the other side - what are good courses for people from these countries to study so that they become more skilled ? Im assuming that most

Here's a question from the other side - what are good courses for people from these countries to study so that they become more skilled ? Im assuming that most of the Coursera/udacity/etc combo is ineffective, because the students from other countries must already be consuming them. So the difference is clearly originating from college level courses. Should everyone just do Abelson and Sussman + Knuth and call it a day ?

umvi 8y ago
> what are good courses for people from these countries to study so that they become more skilled ? Just my opinion, but more doing, less "learning". I've interviewed dozens of Indian candidates at my company, and I've noticed a huge problem: a good 50-60% of them know the jargon and theory, but if you try to probe deeper they don't know what any of it means. It reminded me strongly of Feynman's account of the Brazilian education system[1] Basically, I think serious students need to actually build stuff and gain a deep intuition of the concepts they are learning. There seems to be far too much rote memorization of CS concepts and jargon without deep understanding of the why and the how. [1] http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
randomorton 8y ago
Look up Tai Lopez and Andy Rubin and Anthony Lavendovosky.