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IME people who learned the theory can adapt to new situations much better. Those that just learned a single set of skills like, say, Python web backends become
by zeroonetwothree 3y ago
IME people who learned the theory can adapt to new situations much better. Those that just learned a single set of skills like, say, Python web backends become lost quickly if they need to do something different, like optimise some multithreaded C++ service. And often in our jobs these types of things do come up, you can’t always get a specialist to cover every single type of work.
Of course this could be mostly correlation, perhaps the type of people that seek degrees also enjoy learning more broadly in general.
- JSavageOne 3y ago> like optimise some multithreaded C++ service. And often in our jobs these types of things do come up What are the jobs where this kind of thing comes up? I've never had to do anything with multithreading or C++, and I'd estimate that the jobs where that stuff comes up is a tiny minority. I think it'd be cool to encounter these kinds of problems, but it just seems more like a niche thing to me these days.
- TillE 3y agoGame development, and really anything that needs fast native code.