I had a similar education starting around 25 years ago, and my experience is different than yours. Very few of the courses I took have been directly helpful, an

I had a similar education starting around 25 years ago, and my experience is different than yours. Very few of the courses I took have been directly helpful, and the ones that were indirectly helpful were very indirectly helpful. The most helpful one was a "software engineering" course, but mostly it was c++ development in a Unix environment. The part that was directly helpful was the shell scripting, not the basics of it since I was already running Linux and knew my way around a command prompt, but the professor would demonstrate things live in class, and he was a serious pro. I was just blown away at some of the stuff he knew, he could basically operate in a shell environment at the speed of thought. I'm still not like that, but I learned some stuff. CS 101, like you, I already knew. "Basic Computer Games" from when I was a 7 pretty much covered that. Discrete math helped a little, I mean I already knew most of it, but it helped. Stats helped a little, the first stats class we had to take. The second was all proofs, never used any of it. Never used any of the other math, linear algebra, three semesters of calc, differential equations, and a graduate level combinatorics class that broke my brain. Never used a single bit of it. Compilers, we wrote our own compiler, helped a tiny bit indirectly. It made PL/SQL error message make more sense, I don't remember why. Operating systems, we wrote our own operating system, don't know any way that that helped. Graphics, never used it. Two semesters of assembly, never used it. Algorithms, the first day of class we had a substitute whose accent I couldn't understand and he spent the whole class writing proofs on the blackboard and I thought, "I am so fucked". The actual class turned out to be just things like "count how many times this for loop will execute", total waste of time. One extreme to the other. Didn't take a database course, worked with databases most of my career. That would have helped. You could fit the parts of the courses that I've used into a 3 month boot camp pretty easily. But that's not the point of a CS degree to employers, the point of a CS degree to employers is that if someone can figure out vector calc and differential equations, they can figure out what the bug is with your CRUD app. It's just an expensive workaround for an IQ test in an environment where employers aren't allowed to give IQ tests. And also, if they can stick around for 4 years to get a degree without flaking out, maybe they'll stick around for a few years on the job.