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I completed my BSCS at a state school in my 30s after already being a freelance/amateur programmer for many years. I can honestly say I did not learn a single n
by scrapcode 4y ago
I completed my BSCS at a state school in my 30s after already being a freelance/amateur programmer for many years. I can honestly say I did not learn a single new thing about programming. In fact, almost every single bit of the programming I learned was completely wrong by todays standards, and rife with mistakes.
- randcraw 4y agoSounds like you attended a bad school. I earned a MS in CS at age 30 atop my BS in zoology and 6 years of work as a programmer. My MSCS program introduced me to many new and useful concepts and techniques that have informed all the nontrivial computing tasks I've undertaken since, now 33 years. That degree has proved to be the best investment of my life, by a large margin.
- the_only_law 4y agoWhy are you comparing a BS program to an MS program?
- scrapcode 4y agoIt certainly wouldn't be a program that I would recommend to anyone that wanted to actually learn how to program.
- throwaway675309 4y agoI would argue that it's not necessarily the job of a computer science degree to teach you programming, which is more about the craftsmanship and likely should be practiced and learned individually. Computer science is about the theoretics. I greatly value the CS education I received in linear algebra, discrete mathematics, etc. which I decidedly would not have learned on the job. If you just want to learn programming you may as well just enroll in a code camp.
- scrapcode 4y agoThere were some decent courses that I got something out of, mostly business-related courses. Even those seemed pretty outdated, though. If I was spending my own money on a 4-year degree in Computer Science with a focus on Software Development, I would certainly expect to come out of it with some sort of foundation of proper development.