Timeline for I'm graduating with a Computer Science degree but I don't feel like I know how to program
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| Feb 4, 2011 at 15:07 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Jul 15, 2010 at 17:47 | comment | added | Quonux | interesting problem, but why would you do normaly a ECC test ;) , except for hardware, of course But its an good example of self-taugth stuff that you don't/can't? learn at compSci | |
| Jul 13, 2010 at 14:05 | comment | added | tc. | You're mixing up two things here. I found doing a degree incredibly useful — I know it made me a much better coder, but I can never work out exactly why (presumably a combination of a little knowledge and a better approach to problem solving). That said, there are plenty of graduates out there (from a fairly prestigious university) who can't even figure out how to implement (9,5) ECC with a 512-byte lookup table. The good coders are the ones who go beyond "I don't understand this, but I can do the exam questions". | |
| Jul 7, 2010 at 14:31 | comment | added | Dean J | I've met dozens of CS grads - while interviewing them - that couldn't explain any sorting algorithms, even if left to think for five minutes. Perhaps the university standard here in the states isn't applied entirely well across the board. As @Chris S points out, it's easy enough to slide through a degree without learning much of anything. | |
| Jul 7, 2010 at 14:14 | comment | added | Cerin | I see both sides of the argument. I've met some really smart CompSci degrees, but I've also met some guys with CompSci degrees who are now working in a call center because they didn't really care about CompSci. I learned a lot in my CompSci courses, but I have to admit most of the technical skills that have landed me jobs I learned out of school on my own time. When I interview for software engineering jobs, they generally test your knowledge for specific technologies, problem solving strategies, and interpersonal skills. None of which are explicitly taught at college. | |
| Jul 7, 2010 at 13:38 | comment | added | iWasRobbed | This is the same way everyone feels about all degrees once they get them. School in general prepares you for a broad array of situations. Once you start working, then you can get more specialized and you'll maybe feel like you wasted all that energy on school, but how did you know what you were going to end up actually doing? Better safe to learn about a lot that you can build upon than to have never learned about it at all. | |
| Jul 7, 2010 at 13:13 | history | answered | Il-Bhima | CC BY-SA 2.5 |