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Wow, he went from taking his bachelor to lecturing. I always dreamt of that when going through my degree and encountering courses that needed a thorough rework

Wow, he went from taking his bachelor to lecturing. I always dreamt of that when going through my degree and encountering courses that needed a thorough rework.

shortrounddev2 3y ago
tbh if I were in a class taught by someone who had JUST finished their bachelor's degree, I'd take a lot of it with a grain of salt
- medstrom 3y ago
  If you expect perfect factual accuracy from your teachers, yeah. On the flip side, they don't have the curse of knowledge yet i.e. it's still fresh in their mind what was difficult in the beginning, so they can probably explain very well. Just keep in mind who's teaching you, and it's just like if a co-student teaches you. And if you feel you have to take what you hear with a grain of salt, that's probably good for your learning too.
  - shortrounddev2 3y ago
    I just mean in terms of experience. If you deviate from textbook accuracy and go into providing practical advice for real-life scenarios, someone with only a bachelor's and no work history is someone who can only give you canned anecdotes from others. Looking at his resume, it looks like he's had some internships so he has a bit of experience, and that's probably worth something
    - gtchuang 3y ago
      His main day job is as a SWE doing program analysis, so I'm pretty sure he's got the credentials to talk about real-life scenarios.
      - shortrounddev2 3y ago
        Yeah idk anything about the guy
- DevelopingElk 3y ago
  I went to CMU and was in AEPI fraternity with Brandon Wu. Brandon Wu is exceptional when it comes to functional programming. He was head TA of 15150 for a year, I have 100% confidence in him. He took a break from TAing for some time, and when he returned he decided to have some fun with his application. He wrote a transpiler from a C like syntax to SML the day before his interview, and used it to joke that they should transition to teaching functional programming in C.
  - shortrounddev2 3y ago
    Yeah idk anything about him in particular. I just mean that, on paper, someone who goes straight from bachelor's to teaching is someone who doesn't really have any experience. I notice that a lot of the people who extol the virtues of FP to me are a lot of people straight out of college and have little real-world reference for why FP is useful in a prod environment
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Wow, he went from taking his bachelor to lecturing. I always dreamt of that when going through my degree and encountering courses that needed a thorough rework.

shortrounddev2 3y ago

tbh if I were in a class taught by someone who had JUST finished their bachelor's degree, I'd take a lot of it with a grain of salt

medstrom 3y ago
If you expect perfect factual accuracy from your teachers, yeah. On the flip side, they don't have the curse of knowledge yet i.e. it's still fresh in their mind what was difficult in the beginning, so they can probably explain very well. Just keep in mind who's teaching you, and it's just like if a co-student teaches you. And if you feel you have to take what you hear with a grain of salt, that's probably good for your learning too.
- shortrounddev2 3y ago
  I just mean in terms of experience. If you deviate from textbook accuracy and go into providing practical advice for real-life scenarios, someone with only a bachelor's and no work history is someone who can only give you canned anecdotes from others. Looking at his resume, it looks like he's had some internships so he has a bit of experience, and that's probably worth something
  - gtchuang 3y ago
    His main day job is as a SWE doing program analysis, so I'm pretty sure he's got the credentials to talk about real-life scenarios.
    - shortrounddev2 3y ago
      Yeah idk anything about the guy
DevelopingElk 3y ago
I went to CMU and was in AEPI fraternity with Brandon Wu. Brandon Wu is exceptional when it comes to functional programming. He was head TA of 15150 for a year, I have 100% confidence in him. He took a break from TAing for some time, and when he returned he decided to have some fun with his application. He wrote a transpiler from a C like syntax to SML the day before his interview, and used it to joke that they should transition to teaching functional programming in C.
- shortrounddev2 3y ago
  Yeah idk anything about him in particular. I just mean that, on paper, someone who goes straight from bachelor's to teaching is someone who doesn't really have any experience. I notice that a lot of the people who extol the virtues of FP to me are a lot of people straight out of college and have little real-world reference for why FP is useful in a prod environment

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