Pretty brilliant idea: "Imposter Handbook", for teaching self-taught devs what they missed by not doing a CS degree https://bigmachine.io/imposter/
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Well, OK, in 3~6 months with Rails you'll have interacted with a database and probably also done Javascript, so you'd be ahead of my degree.
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we also had Cobol. Never used it, but it was at the height of the Y2K freak out.
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I mean half of my CS credit hours were learning Java, and not Java as it is actually spoken, but Java as CS textbooks think is important.
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interesting - in 1990-1993 CS in Canada was mostly math. Students were expected to pick up "languages" on their own time.
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That is one shitty CS degree then. Value of CS is in algos/data structures/design patterns/understanding whole HW to SW stack
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Langs: You touch a few types to understand their fundamental concepts, no need to spend months on each. My degree was invaluable
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mine felt like 1-2 great years of diving into arcane C/C++, immediately followed by pointless faffing around in academic CS
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@thegrugq I was also working as a dev before and while getting my cs degree...that made a big difference as wellThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It’d be great if you were even half-joking, but nope.
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@thegrugq I dunno I got a lot more than that from my cs degree...but I did research as well. I was self taught b4 the degree.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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