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I thought that was crazy, but reflecting over my CS education they haven’t gone over the difference between disk space and RAM. I suppose they figure everyone a

by easton 5y ago

I thought that was crazy, but reflecting over my CS education they haven’t gone over the difference between disk space and RAM. I suppose they figure everyone already knows?

kyawzazaw 5y ago
I think that's why Scott Hanselman started this series https://www.hanselman.com/blog/new-youtube-series-computer-things-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school https://www.hanselman.com/blog/new-youtube-series-computer-t...
firebaze 5y ago
But can you really be, let's be modest, around the baseline of developer competence not knowing the difference between RAM and disk space? Hard to believe to me.
sam0x17 5y ago
You sure you didn't have a computer architecture course? Most CS programs it is a required course
- mod 5y ago
  What is a required course?
  - 867-5309 5y ago
    a required module of a course
  - jefftk 5y ago
    In American terminology, individual classes are called "courses". This particular course is likely "required" as one of the steps in a Computer Science "major".
- easton 5y ago
  I did (actually it was last semester) but they didn’t do basic definitions, it came with an assumption you knew what the parts of a computer were.
  - sam0x17 5y ago
    That's unfortunate. Luckily there are tons of good resources online like OSSU https://github.com/ossu/computer-science https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
ajsnigrutin 5y ago
It could be meant not in a way of "this is ram vs this is disk", but "we have a 1tb dataset, what kind of a server do we need?", and the person not knowing enough about databases to think they need 1tb of ram to be able to run it.