I'm amazed how much criticism of academic CS education is just that it doesn't have much to do with what we do day-to-day. Many people never get the chance to do anything but what they do day-to-day. My CS education was an opportunity.
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The problem is that people think studying CS will turn them into a software engineer. Whilst it's important, I think it has to be a separate major. On the other hand, I wish I studied theoretical CS and math because I want to do less eng and more lang design & algo stuff.
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Yes! The last bit describes exactly what I wanted to learn from my CS course, but instead I got outdated software engineering, hence I dropped out. Have had to learn the lang design & type theory stuff in industry and my spare time - which works but it's got its own challenges.
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I didn't really understand that CS meant different things to different people at the time and just wanted to learn theory and maths and stuff and then figure out how to apply it to my creative and artistic projects. I think I had the wrong impression going in π