> If you're a hacker who loves to see code run and solve real world problems you may be frustrated at the UoC I graduated from the U of C in '97. Did the star

> If you're a hacker who loves to see code run and solve real world problems you may be frustrated at the UoC I graduated from the U of C in '97. Did the startup thing for a while, then went on to Yahoo & Google. In my early career, I used to lament the fact that the U of C hadn't taught me various "practical" things. I was shocked the first time I heard a coworker mentioned they had a class on just a programming language. Eventually, I grew to appreciate that those "practical" things both change & are relatively easy to learn on your own. Whereas an academic environment is a much easier place to learn things like theory. Not to say they need to be mutually exclusive, just to say there is value in the emphasis on theory. All that said, and as much as I love the U of C, I'd tell a high school kid interest in Comp Sci to go to Stanford, U of I, or CMU.