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The kind of thinking that CS enables
- Bostonian 3y ago"Computer science teaches abstract reasoning in a way that nothing else can." Computer science majors will learn more about CS than people in other majors, but I would like to see the study showing that they learn more non-CS skills than other college students over 4 years, especially when you control for high school GPA and SAT/ACT score.
- rektide 3y agoI think tech really needs a good campaign with these kind of virtues. It's unclear how wonderful & direct & real a world we have here. Yes we have to interface up with the dirty ridiculous ill managed weak-grasp real world, but being close to the Machine & able to tangle with & manipulate these complex systems with such prowess & power, being able to explore problems & how to tackle them, is addictive as fuck. The potential as an individual to keep growing, keep seeing new things & encompass them, it's absurdly great a path to walk. We direly need better ways to signal the meaningfulness & explorability of tech/dev, how great it is to be a connected in the loop agent in the system, finding out & steering things. I think this is semi-low availability in society today & is the killer feature of this path. Keep articles like this coming.