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Hmm, my education must have been better than I give it credit: I definitely was taught all of these concepts at uni.

by raydiatian 4y ago

zamnos 4y ago
Which uni was this? Presumably you're a proud alumni, even if you don't want to donate money to them, you might at least consider repping them in this context for having taught you this stuff. Fwiwi, many CS programs focus on the science end of things like Big Oh notation, and utterly fail to discuss any day-to-day, practical applications of things.
- raydiatian 4y ago
  I try to minimize the amount of personal info I share. Hacker News community is smart people, and my thread history is triangulation data. Wouldn’t say I’m a particularly proud alum. They dropped the ball on a wide swath of other topics that I would consider integral. For instance, distributed computing should be a more common undergrad elective, not something you get blindsided by when you get out of school. “Sorry, you said Who-bernetes?” Now, I get that Kubernetes is a relatively young project, as is Docker and other containerization tech, but it is nonetheless staggering how school felt like it was 10 years behind the ‘cutting edge’ when I was there. They seemingly had no interest in educating engineers to go out and join the web community unless that individual sought self-guided study.
- throw_pm23 4y ago
  Some programs manage to sneak in some of this material in an "operating systems" or "network programming" or other such class where you do more hands-on programming. More so in technical universities and CS Engineering degrees (at least this is the case in Europe).
ghaff 4y ago
I don't think it's so much a case of better or worse--but rather that some schools see a place in the CS curriculum for a Computers, Programming, and Tools 101 course and others do not--figuring you know a lot of this stuff or can pick it up.

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Hmm, my education must have been better than I give it credit: I definitely was taught all of these concepts at uni.

by raydiatian 4y ago

Hmm, my education must have been better than I give it credit: I definitely was taught all of these concepts at uni.

zamnos 4y ago
Which uni was this? Presumably you're a proud alumni, even if you don't want to donate money to them, you might at least consider repping them in this context for having taught you this stuff. Fwiwi, many CS programs focus on the science end of things like Big Oh notation, and utterly fail to discuss any day-to-day, practical applications of things.
- raydiatian 4y ago
  I try to minimize the amount of personal info I share. Hacker News community is smart people, and my thread history is triangulation data. Wouldn’t say I’m a particularly proud alum. They dropped the ball on a wide swath of other topics that I would consider integral. For instance, distributed computing should be a more common undergrad elective, not something you get blindsided by when you get out of school. “Sorry, you said Who-bernetes?” Now, I get that Kubernetes is a relatively young project, as is Docker and other containerization tech, but it is nonetheless staggering how school felt like it was 10 years behind the ‘cutting edge’ when I was there. They seemingly had no interest in educating engineers to go out and join the web community unless that individual sought self-guided study.
- throw_pm23 4y ago
  Some programs manage to sneak in some of this material in an "operating systems" or "network programming" or other such class where you do more hands-on programming. More so in technical universities and CS Engineering degrees (at least this is the case in Europe).
ghaff 4y ago
I don't think it's so much a case of better or worse--but rather that some schools see a place in the CS curriculum for a Computers, Programming, and Tools 101 course and others do not--figuring you know a lot of this stuff or can pick it up.