Comment Maybe at a monkey school like yours! (Score 1) 132
I don't know what school you went to, but it sounds to me like you wasted your time and money. The CS courses and math courses that I have to take are of the order of a magnitude harder than courses of many other majors at my university. Good instructors are disciplined and brilliant themselves and will force you develop and adjust your ways of thinking.
I have observed that some schools have poor CS curriculums. I guess maybe CS hasn't aged enough for there to be enough standards from which to base a proper curriculum. Or perhaps the problem is with the instructors. Just like in math courses where there is little guarantee of finding a decent instructor inside of a university, for many subtle reasons.
Comments about a CS degree being obsolete as soon as you get it are likewise ignorant, that is if CS is taught from the proper perspective. Meta skills never become obsolete. Standard algorithms do not become obsolete overnight. Many CS abstract models will be used for many years to come. Of course, the implementation details and standard protocols may change rather frequently. Which is why you should be left to figure these things out on your own. This is a piece of cake if you can grasp the harder, more 'permanent' information. CS should be a very difficult degree, as human ideas can become very complex. If your CS degree is considered easy at your school, maybe you should stop cheating yourself and find someplace where they get into the 'real meat' of the matter.
I have observed that some schools have poor CS curriculums. I guess maybe CS hasn't aged enough for there to be enough standards from which to base a proper curriculum. Or perhaps the problem is with the instructors. Just like in math courses where there is little guarantee of finding a decent instructor inside of a university, for many subtle reasons.
Comments about a CS degree being obsolete as soon as you get it are likewise ignorant, that is if CS is taught from the proper perspective. Meta skills never become obsolete. Standard algorithms do not become obsolete overnight. Many CS abstract models will be used for many years to come. Of course, the implementation details and standard protocols may change rather frequently. Which is why you should be left to figure these things out on your own. This is a piece of cake if you can grasp the harder, more 'permanent' information. CS should be a very difficult degree, as human ideas can become very complex. If your CS degree is considered easy at your school, maybe you should stop cheating yourself and find someplace where they get into the 'real meat' of the matter.
