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For financial reasons, I did two years at a community college before I went to a University and my programming courses at the community college covered far more
by LordKano 12y ago
For financial reasons, I did two years at a community college before I went to a University and my programming courses at the community college covered far more of the underlying mechanisms of program execution than any of my university courses.
Just to make sure we understood how they worked, we had to make our own linked list objects and then write functions to traverse them.
It turns out that by saving money at a community college, I actually got a better education than I otherwise would have.
- bane 12y agoI have a similar story. I remember when my group of 7 community college grads all transferred over to the local uni. We all signed up for the Junior-level weed-out course (you could pivot at that point and switch majors to I.S. without too much headache). I think the class started with about 60 people, and ended with 11, 6 of which were my community college peers. All of my group worked up through school and graduated with top marks. It was funny, years after we had all met at CC to be standing on stage during our University graduation all receiving some kind of academic award. In general I'd say that most of my CC professors were more dedicated and accessible to teaching than my uni professors (with a couple exceptions). I remember several fond Saturday afternoons in the library where a couple of our professors would hold tutoring classes for students struggling with pointers and other hard to get concepts. I have the sense that none of my CC classes were weed-out courses, the notion was that all of the students in attendance had already been weeded-out by life in some way and were being given the golden ticket of a second chance.