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 The last bit describes exactly what I wanted to learn from my CS course, but instead I got outdated software engineering, hence I dropped out.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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That's what I'm doing now and kinda dreaming about contributing to Rust
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Oh cool! What would you like to contribute?