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> But it appears that new developers have absolutely no idea how anything but algorithms work. Possibly a case of teaching to the test (interview, in this case
by jjav 5y ago
> But it appears that new developers have absolutely no idea how anything but algorithms work.
Possibly a case of teaching to the test (interview, in this case)?
My CS education is a couple decades back, but while we had an algorithm course, most credit hours were spent on more practical things like building compilers, building an OS, building a shell, SQL, networking stacks, encryption, software engineering complex systems and so forth.
Is the current CS landscape more algorithm-focused because the FAANGs have made that the only stick to measure by?
- dagw 5y agoWhen I went to school they offered both Computer Engineering and Computer Science degrees[1]. The Computer Engineering degree was more like how you described your degree (plus hardware) and the Computer Science degree was more math, algorithms and theory focused. I personally feel that this is the obvious way to do it. [1]they later added a Software Engineering degree which focused more on architecture and designing large scale software system, software project management and so on.