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I started in Computer Science. It was incredibly dry, and though I wasn’t looking for a training course, I did want to come out with hands on skills such as so
by benjaminwootton 3y ago
I started in Computer Science. It was incredibly dry, and though I wasn’t looking for a training course, I did want to come out with hands on skills such as software engineering and SQL. I ended up flipping to something called Advanced Computing which struck the balance between theory and practice.
As it happens, I subsequently veered into AI and “Deep Learning” before it had the name. That also seemed useless and very theoretical until about a year ago, at which point it became the most important skill in the industry out of nowhere. I might need to dust off the books again!
- jamestimmins 3y agoThe dryness of intro courses is underrated. I took CS101 in college (in C++) and it was painfully slow and boring and I could learn just as quickly from the book. Contrast with my bro who studied ME where they had a toy robot competition in the first month.
- benjaminwootton 3y agoIndeed. A sprinkle of some of the applied stuff in year 1, (e.g. Software Engineering, AI, Computer Vision) and it might have held my interest. Nearly 20 years later I think that would have been for the best.
- TillE 3y agoOur CS101 course (or maybe 102?) involved building a clone of the board game Carcassonne in Java, which was pretty fun.
- jamestimmins 3y agoIn mine we built a minimal deposit system that let people add/withdraw money. Yours sounds more fun for sure. Where was this?