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> It might be painful to admit, but the practical value of that rather specialized knowledge that took me several years of hard work to obtain is pretty much ze
by klntsky 8y ago
> It might be painful to admit, but the practical value of that rather specialized knowledge that took me several years of hard work to obtain is pretty much zero now.
It's sad that your professors didn't tell you beforehand that you were going to learn how to learn during that time, not just study a particular technology stack.
- ghaff 8y agoI thought that was fairly common knowledge about a great deal of university education.
- jonfw 8y agoThis bears the question- are classes based around studying a particular technology track the most effective way to teach somebody how to learn?
- ghaff 8y agoThe short answer is probably no. And the fact is that top universities mostly aren't so focused on teaching whatever language or framework is the flavor of the day. That said, you need tools of some sort if you're going to actually build things as opposed to just learning, say, algorithms in pseudo-code. And it probably makes sense to use some fairly standard language to do so. There's not much point in making things deliberately obscure by making students use some language that the professor designed for his PhD thesis.
- vecter 8y agoStudying math is the best way to improve your logical thinking abilities.
- JamesBarney 8y agoLearning how to learn is a specialized set of skills that weren't taught at the university level when I was in a school.(2010)