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So you posted this question here as "Ask HN:" and it got no traction; now you posted it no Quora and have posted that link here -- is there some ulterior motive
by pixeloution 15y ago
So you posted this question here as "Ask HN:" and it got no traction; now you posted it no Quora and have posted that link here -- is there some ulterior motive you have?
- amichail 15y agoI've had quite a bad experience with CS. It focuses on all the wrong things.
- pspeter3 15y agoCan you elaborate what you mean by it focuses on the wrong things? I'm confused because Computer Science is a tool that is supposed to enable you to focus on what you want.
- amichail 15y agoCS makes sense as a major if you want to work as a highly paid software engineer building someone else's products. That's not the creativity I care about.
- pspeter3 15y agoWhat about all of the entrepreneurs who come up with their own products and code them? Also CS is a major about how to think about problems and solve them. Any creative person needs that skill set eventually. Whether they get that from Computer Science is up to them but CS makes sense as a major for a variety of people.
- amichail 15y agoMuch of the programming entrepreneurs do is not difficult -- especially with the availability of all sorts of libraries for more difficult things. CS would be more useful for those people building difficult libraries that require specialized domain knowledge.
- pixeloution 15y agoJust because you've had a bad experience doesn't mean CS departments should reject creative people. It means it wasn't suited to you.
- veyron 15y agoWhat are the "wrong things" that you think CS focuses on?