On 2012-05-07 20:13, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 07:21:54PM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Sometimes I wonder what do students learn in modern CS courses.
[...]
Way too much theory and almost no practical applications. At least, that
was my experience when I was in college. It gets worse the more
prestigious the college is, apparently.
I'm glad I spent much of my free time working on my own projects, and
doing _real_ coding, like actually use C/C++ outside of the trivial
assignments they hand out in class. About 90% of what I do at my job is
what I learned during those free-time projects. Only 10% or maybe even
less is what I got from CS courses.
So true, so true. I feel exactly the same.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
