1/ good thread (I'm RTing something the middle of it; scroll up & down) It's a bit of special pleading, bc I'm also one of these high-intelligence / high-conscientiousness / low-agreeableness people (OCEAN), but I think it's true that a lot of good comes from that psychographichttps://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1460224977098231819 …
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6/ yeah, CS was 100% theoretical when I was at Cornell ; zero coding classes ; it was assumed we'd just pick it up by osmosis (which we had to - sink or swim, baby) 10% of that theory I use a lot ; 90% was just professors justifying their research areas by "teaching" undergrads
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Honestly, 6 months to a year spent trying out the career path you're thinking of following will likely teach you more and faster than college, and will let you figure out if you hate it WITHOUT four years of sunk costs. Make apprenticeships great again.
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Arguably that's the worst part of the bargain. Spend years learning in the academic environment with low stakes and predictable standards. Get in the real world and find the *actual* job is three times as hard and half as rewarding as you expected... If only they warned you.
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I don’t know what CS was like when you were there but CS at Cornell is now very different from a “programming” degree. A lot more theoretical and algorithms based.
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CS grad friends have told me on more than one occasion at how different their preparation is compared to auto-didacts and people from other institutions that focus more on programming.
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I'm not sure you can teach programming; all you can do is help people learn, and that's not even essential. Teaching just doesn't cover enough time. If there's a "royal road" that works in tens of hours instead of thousands, I've not seen it.
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Literally just had that discussion with the wife/kids last night: Figure out what you want to do to support yourself, and we’ll support you in figuring that out and getting there. May include college, may not. If yes, what you study needs an actual path to that career.
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