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> I've always seen the same pattern in College decision: self-projection. That is, a combination of what they know and what they think they can do/like. I was
by rjsw 6y ago
> I've always seen the same pattern in College decision: self-projection. That is, a combination of what they know and what they think they can do/like.
I was guilty of that but I don't think I was wrong to think that way.
I decided to work in Computing when I was 10 and would like to think that I'm quite good at it, but felt that I'm not good enough at doing essay style exams to be able to pass a CS degree.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> I decided to work in Computing when I was 10 and would like to think that I'm quite good at it, but felt that I'm not good enough at doing essay style exams to be able to pass a CS degree. This doesn't make much sense; you'd be taking math exams, not writing essays. Source: I have a CS degree.
- rjsw 6y agoI chose to do more maths courses to avoid having to write essays. Source: I failed a CS degree.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThe number of essays required for a CS degree is zero. If you think otherwise, all I can really say is "you're doing it wrong". Graduating from college usually requires some essays, but there are easy workarounds for that.
- rjsw 6y agoYou seem to be assuming that your experience is universal.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoWhy? I'm assuming that my experience is common, which it is. That's more than enough to disprove the idea "I'm not good enough at doing essay style exams to pass a CS degree". Everyone is that good, because there is no minimum essay-skill requirement to pass a CS degree. Are you thinking that the only CS degree you could conceivably otherwise have passed also had a strict essay requirement?
- rjsw 6y agoWhat style of CS exams were the ones that you took, multiple choice ?
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThey were math tests. Commonly proofs. Sometimes things like "calculate the result of this addition in this ALU". Sometimes also things like "what is the output of a lexer?" ("A stream of tokens."), or "identify the bug in this code snippet".