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I know this has changed over time, but MIT's CS curriculum used to be really heavy on theory and light on industry-relevant practice (of course, students can ch
by Ozzie_osman 3y ago
I know this has changed over time, but MIT's CS curriculum used to be really heavy on theory and light on industry-relevant practice (of course, students can choose a lot of their own courses past the core). For example, the intro course was taught in Scheme of all languages.
Thanks for the tip about that Missing Semester course.
- isaacfung 3y agoI think MIT students are expected to have very strong self learning abilities and do a lot of experiments on their own. https://www.quora.com/Who-produces-better-computer-engineers-Tsinghua-University-Stanford-or-MIT/answers/4080871 https://www.quora.com/Who-produces-better-computer-engineers...
- dilyevsky 3y agoThat’s what summer internships are for. Academia will be poor at teaching this anyway