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I think he's saying that we're losing knowledge of fundamentals which is true. It's because corporations are commoditizing and devaluing applicants with univer
by alexfromapex 3y ago
I think he's saying that we're losing knowledge of fundamentals which is true. It's because corporations are commoditizing and devaluing applicants with university educations to save a buck. The university educations are where people gain knowledge of the deeper fundamentals of Computer Science.
- vouwfietsman 3y agoIts funny because he also argues that much of the computer science curriculum is worthless advice on programming. Recently dove into parser theory as an example.
- jupp0r 3y agoIt's also because demand has been higher than the pool of workers with a CS degree.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> I think he's saying that we're losing knowledge of fundamentals which is true. The more knowledge and different application domains a field has, the smaller share of that an average individual practitioner is going to know — or need.
- LtWorf 3y agoYou're going to want to know more stuff, to be able to change jobs more easily.
- mariusor 3y agoIf you ever watched Blow talk about higher education, you'd know he does not have a great opinion on it. As far as I remember he dropped out of Berkley before getting a degree, he's mostly self thought, and he considers most of the curriculum of a comp-sci degree useless for "real" programmers - where "real" is probably game dev, or something else similarly computationally intensive.