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- linux@lemmy.ml
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“College is needed” comments are so weird in a field that can be done on an island with a solar battery. CS isn’t medicine or engineering, and the field is so young that requiring a “formal education” most likely will have negative effects of teaching poor practices that are not up to date
I sense that as you learn more about CS, it could change your opinion about coursework
Many courses are free and books can be purchased outside of university
Interesting, but means little without accreditation.
EDIT: Also, why’s it all Java?
EDIT2: Addressing the downvotes: If you really think that any employer these days is going to be happy with “Learned from a list on Github” on your resume then you’re sorely mistaken. It doesn’t matter if the courses match an accredited program. The accreditation is what matters because no accreditation = no diploma. Employers like diplomas.
The ReadMe states these are all courses taught at reputable universities. Do you know of any courses taught at these universities that utilizes Rust or C/C++? Not asking to criticize or anything, I’m legitimately curious because I too would like to see more focus on these languages over Java.
Idk about American universities, but C++ was taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland when I attended 8 years ago. Granted it was a robotics class so maybe it’s different. Either way, makes more sense to me to learn C/C++ since most things are programmed in that.
This is a really neat idea but I would like to see all the Java replaced with C/C++ or Rust.
The ReadMe suggests these courses are administered and taught by Universities. I’m genuinely curious if you know of any Computer Science courses taught at any of these reputable universities that utilizes Rust or C?
Whi getting through college, I was always bummed that we have to learn a lot of stuff that seemed super irelevant to my future carreer, while also being annoying. Stuff like prolog, Phyro, Lisp, Assembly, or bunch of obscure math.
It was only years later when I finally realized why it was important - the school wasn’t for teaching me to be the C#/Java programmer, but it taught me to be A programmer. I can pick up and start successfully writing anything I need, in any language, relatively quickly and without issues, nonmatter whether it’s functional, objective, or wharever style of language, because I’ve very probably already had to deal with, learn, understand and pass exams in language that is similar to it, since college made me learn a language from almost every style or flavor of languages there are.
I was surprised when I first saw colleagues struggle with picking up languages other than the ones they work in, and that was when I finally realized why and how sneakily did the college make me a universal programmer without me noticing it. And that’s something that’s harder to get when self-taught, because you don’t get exams and it’s easier to miss the point and just skip courses on lisp, prolog or lambda calculus, because it seems irrelevant, but the different point of view and approach used when writing in those languahes is what will teach you the most.
Cool, but where’s the accreditation? At least Coursera has a bit of accreditation. Accreditation is very important. I quit my last college after 3 semesters because it was basically a meme college. It was very close to our home though. I’m going back after 5 years, not to the meme college, but to a much more accredited college. The special thing about this college is that it’s a state college (‘state’ referring to the country, I am not from US), and it’s got good rankings (+1000 but I never aimed for much!) but it’s very, very cheap because for non-lab classes, it’s basically “here’s a bunch of books, study them, and come back for tests”! I know this ‘seems’ like a meme college, but it’s truly not. It’s very accredited. That is why OP’s course might just help me. I have been studying like mad for the past 3 months. So I starred this. All this being said can e summed up in a single ‘thank you’. And an advice to others, go [back] to college. It’s the only way to get a job these days. The days of “self-taught wiz-kid” are over. Don’t worry if you are in your mid-20s, or early-30s like I am. Or even mid-30s or even if you are at death’s door. College is great.
it was basically a meme college.
So your alma matter is also the Bovine University?
Yeah, such tripe!
