I’m writing an article on the subject and I think I have a couple good tip but I want to get your pro tips aswell.
What’s things you wish you knew going in to a CS degree or college in general?
What’s something you had a misconception about?
What would you do differently if you could?
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A couple things off the top of my head...
I'll let you know if I think of more...
These are great I especially love the comment on Unix. When I first started we learned emacs and vim commands and I was just like “wow I’m never gonna plug into a mainframe and need to use an editor like this”, but I use vim all the time even if it’s just to edit docker files and whatnot. Definately worth it to learn the terminal.
Yeah, I'll add it to the list of "times that I questioned things that I really should not have".
That can sit right on the shelf right next to...
"ALGEBRA?! When am I ever going to need that!?"
🤦♂️ My job is now quite literally, algebra.
Bravo, Lou.
I knew what I was getting into 21 years ago. I do not know if it has changed much. But...
Most of the things you'll learn are not practical, but they are not wrong. Most of the things you'll learn are old, but they are not outdated.
CS is a young field, it's not even 100 years old. But a lot of "modern" things have a really long history. Take for example Object Oriented Programming. That didn't start in the mid 1980s. It started in 1950s. It took 40 years before the concept was worked out enough to become properly usable (in the 1990s).
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