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So frustrating to email admissions people and get told not to bother applying :(
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It's easier for many people to learn at universities, but much can also be learned outside them.
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I've had great success at that, in fact. Everywhere else wants to make some kind of short term commodity though, which isnt conducive to serious thinking...
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I don’t have an undergrad degree, but I’m slowly getting my head around this stuff. It is possible, and very rewarding! A bunch of people are learning on the Pikelet gitter channel too. If you’re ever interested, feel free to drop by! 🙂
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Here is the link: gitter.im/pikelet-lang/L
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Amazed that you don't have an undergraduate degree, . Did you drop out?
BTW, there's also ##dependent and ##type-theory on Freenode — and #idris, #agda, #coq and probably others of interest.
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Yeah, dropped out. I found undergrad an annoying slog - and they weren’t teaching CS, more last decade’s software engineering, where as I was hoping to get a solid foundation in theory. Also didn’t help that I wasn’t aware at the time that I might have ADD.
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Partly was my fault for not doing enough research into the actual content of the course work before I applied. I don’t regret it (helped me get internships), but I could have got more value out of the experience.
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I did part of a graphic design course several years before, which was much more valuable from a theory perspective and helps me in CS, but had trouble due to attention problems. Now I know about them it might be easier, but I’d much rather be doing research.
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Thankfully I’m now lucky enough to be able to work on dependent type systems and programming languages in my day job. 😍
Heh! Yeah, had to spend some painful years doing Rails web dev before that opportunity came along though. Was good though because I learned a bunch of software engineering techniques that are actually really useful.
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