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YMMV but in college I learned lots about - having to work together with assholes towards a common goal - how sometimes you can cram for a deadline, but someti

YMMV but in college I learned lots about - having to work together with assholes towards a common goal - how sometimes you can cram for a deadline, but sometimes you can't - how, often, how well you do is just politics and networking Obviously fuck everything I learned about however pushdown automata worked. That's not relevant to my career now. All the above still is.

sarchertech 4y ago
The automata class I took years ago has been one of the more relevant to my career.
- ThePadawan 4y ago
  TBH I was struggling to come up with a class that was relevant enough that I recalled it, but not relevant enough that I never used it ;). It's been a while since I graduated, so I probably suppressed a lot of memories about courses like Advanced Partial Differential Equations.
mrguyorama 4y ago
Meanwhile I learned about SQL, statistics, product development, industry best practices, algorithms both optimal existing ones and designing new ones, data structures both how to make one and what makes good ones, and how operating systems are designed and function. Specifically, I wasn't just shown a vague example in a twenty minute youtube video, I was made to demonstrate my knowledge in projects and tests that were designed by an intelligent domain expert and educator to separate the wheat from the chaff and often did just that. I use most of that every single day, and I'm basically a web app developer. Can you learn how to program from learning yourself? Sure. Einstein taught himself calculus, but that doesn't mean most people can adequately teach themselves difficult subjects. Writing a for loop might not be a difficult subject, but understanding what makes a for loop slower than another method, or why maybe you don't need to loop at all if you engineer things differently is an entirely different thing.

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YMMV but in college I learned lots about - having to work together with assholes towards a common goal - how sometimes you can cram for a deadline, but someti

by ThePadawan 4y ago

sarchertech 4y ago
The automata class I took years ago has been one of the more relevant to my career.
- ThePadawan 4y ago
  TBH I was struggling to come up with a class that was relevant enough that I recalled it, but not relevant enough that I never used it ;). It's been a while since I graduated, so I probably suppressed a lot of memories about courses like Advanced Partial Differential Equations.
mrguyorama 4y ago
Meanwhile I learned about SQL, statistics, product development, industry best practices, algorithms both optimal existing ones and designing new ones, data structures both how to make one and what makes good ones, and how operating systems are designed and function. Specifically, I wasn't just shown a vague example in a twenty minute youtube video, I was made to demonstrate my knowledge in projects and tests that were designed by an intelligent domain expert and educator to separate the wheat from the chaff and often did just that. I use most of that every single day, and I'm basically a web app developer. Can you learn how to program from learning yourself? Sure. Einstein taught himself calculus, but that doesn't mean most people can adequately teach themselves difficult subjects. Writing a for loop might not be a difficult subject, but understanding what makes a for loop slower than another method, or why maybe you don't need to loop at all if you engineer things differently is an entirely different thing.