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That seems like an odd course setup for a DS. I'm not a DS but kind of learn about it as a hobby, but I think if you cut the course down to just the first 2 top

That seems like an odd course setup for a DS. I'm not a DS but kind of learn about it as a hobby, but I think if you cut the course down to just the first 2 topics people would have a better foundation. All the DB related stuff seems like a bonus, ML should be easy to pick up if you have good LinAlg and stats knowledge and Python you can pick up along the way. I also agree on your last point. I don't understand how someone would be able to remember a fraction of this knowledge when you're changing topics so often.

galaxyLogic 6y ago
The last point is important. When you're in a university you take different courses over the years but they often reuse or are based on some of the material covered in earlier courses. You learn by repetition and as you go into more advanced topics you can often understand better what you learned before - because you learn connections between things. But when you need to learn a lot of things in a short period of time you don't have time to reflect and think how it all works together. I find this often in my programming projects. Each sub-project requires a lot of focus and concentration. That seems to make it easy to forget about the previous (sub-)project almost totally. Putting in lots of new stuff into your brain means some older stuff gets pushed out of there. The more you learn the more you forget. The only way to fight this is to try to understand the connections between the sub-topics, but if you are in a hurry you don't have time for that.