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It was a very common opinion amongst the startup crowd at that time. Now I would hear stories about MIT, and be impressed, but many schools had very out dated
by treeman79 6y ago
It was a very common opinion amongst the startup crowd at that time.
Now I would hear stories about MIT, and be impressed, but many schools had very out dated programs.
Breadboards were cool, but I wanted to learn software.
Assembly was neat, made me a better programmer. I’ve Never once used it.
Whole series of interesting but not practical skills. I ended up running school newspaper. That was super useful for getting career launched.
- honkycat 6y agoThat's a good perspective actually. I myself have been critical of University computer science programs for not teaching practical skills. I always forget because I went to DePaul University which focus is on practical software development as opposed to making me take organic chem for no apparent reason.