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Not nonsense at all. Algorithms are the foundation, languages are software tools
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That is besides the point. First of all education is supposed to make you independent from employers (better when they depend on you ey?). Second: fundamentals remain while tech (and languages) change.
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agree. im approaching 20 years and i have never taken a formal programming course. dropped my first and only CS class.
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I think that’s the point: to learn general principles that survive changes. Whether universities can teach that is another question.
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I started programming 30 years ago. The advice then was that as almost nobody had spent their career as a programmer we should follow our own path and enjoy it. Nothing much has changed in this respect.
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My take 15 in: the important lessons were preached already then, and many fads have passed since. Didn't learn either in school though.
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It’s the 30-50 year career that GIVES you the OTJ training.
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That’s backassword.
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There is maybe one class in my cs degree I think is still relevant to my line of development: abstract data types, and I could look the same info up in many books or websites if I needed to
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I think there is some merit to the idea that a degree should teach theory that's applicable to all languages that will ever exist. But not all do, really.
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As a philosophy major who focused on logic, turned marketing analyst, turned coder, I've benefited from self study and on the job training, but especially curiosity to learn more broadly than immediately required. Still, I feel the lack of a CS degree.
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“I don't know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” Charles Hoare, 1982. Fortran is still in use - even if its precompiled to C
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CS is a great foundation in fundamentals. But good advice from an excellent CS prof was to commit to relearn one third every year to stay current. it’s been great advice. All the software that needs to be written has not been, how will it get done?
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Isn't that what he's saying, though? Learn the general principles and concepts that apply broadly, not the hot language of the day that will be obsolete in a minute?
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Exactly! Programming is programming! It's a mindset. You learn how to do it on a good language like c, c++, objective-c, etc and you can morph to another language and style quickly! Meanwhile you are helping yourself earn money now!
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