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I don't think you're wrong about how people perceive this. But, it's funny because at my "top-ranked" CS college you could absolutely graduate having coded the
by tkzed49 5y ago
I don't think you're wrong about how people perceive this. But, it's funny because at my "top-ranked" CS college you could absolutely graduate having coded the exact same guided CS projects as everyone else (about 2 years worth of classes, which, granted, is more time than most coding schools).
You _could_ take electives with complicated freeform projects, or that mimicked actual software engineering, or that focused on the state of the art in various CS specializations, but you didn't need to.
- restingrobot 5y agoI don't know about your school the projects we worked on compared to a boot camp were very different. For example, one boot camp a friend took spent an entire 4 week session iterating on a single project, that would have been a 1 week homework assignment at my school. I think that the high level courses are able to go much deeper due to their respective topics than "coding" specific schools that are faster. It's my opinion that the majority of learning took place in those late night lab sessions trying to meet a deadline, and not in the classroom.
- 908B64B197 5y agoThat [0] is a school assignment. Granted it's two weeks. On top of a full course load, of course, so they have a few like these in parallels. I don't think there's any bootcamp out there that has that. [0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f10/www/labs/malloclab-writeup.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f10/www/l...
- cheriot 5y agoMy observations from school are similar. I'm a big fan of the value of a computer science education, but most of that came from choosing the harder electives. There were people graduating that did the minimum and... let's say "relied on friends for help". No signal is foolproof.