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Goal of CS should be to make students who build next Google. What if Google changes its interview game and asks people to actually show what they actually built
by yanilkr 16y ago
Goal of CS should be to make students who build next Google. What if Google changes its interview game and asks people to actually show what they actually built?.
CS goal could be greater than a factory producing employees for big corporations.
The new Gospel is lot better. "Build something useful" Start it on day one.
- kenjackson 16y agoWhat if Google changes its interview game and asks people to actually show what they actually built? This is not likely to ever happen in a big way. Way too easy to show stuff that you built that you either didn't really understand or didn't really contribute to. I've interviewed people with significant open source contributions who seemed almost incompetent in the interview. I almost suspect that they hired someone to do the checkins as I'd ask why they did X vs Y and it was like they didn't really know what X was, much less Y.
- tjr 16y agoPromote literate programming!
- yanilkr 16y agoKnowing something and doing something with what you know are two different skill sets. Small companies realize this soon. Google is driven by numbers, If they see enough people who are very informed and smart but actually they gamed the system just to get in Google but really do not do much, then companies will be forced to make major changes. Every idea/process has an expiry time before everyone realizes and try to game the system.
- scott_s 16y agoThis professor has done exactly that. Students in his senior level software engineering course made this webapp suitable for smart phones: http://www.bustracker.org/ http://www.bustracker.org/ The course he is teaching right now is a sophomore level data structures course. He's still teaching them the basics of computer science and programming. Walk before run and all that.