Newfag here.
Is uni CS actually a joke or is this just a meme? If it isn't just a meme can someone explain why?
I understand that there are a ton of people falling for the CS=ez$$$ meme or something, and that most of these people end up being incompetent, but does that mean that uni CS has to be brought down to accomodate them? Shouldn't they just be weeded out?
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burger cs is a meme.
europoor cs is breddy gud.
Depends where. Universities that teach only technologies are shit, actual CS is a science so the curriculum is closer to math than to java.
1970s CS was good. In the 80s, they decided to teach C and UNIX which were known to be bad 50 years ago, then they spat in the faces of OO researchers with Java, and now they're looking at destroying a generation of students' brains with JavaScript.
CS is a meme. Do Robotics - in CS they'll teach you C++ for two years and Java for the last.
Are you a burger? Because this isn't true
Why do you keep pushing this meme?
Cancer>â–¶Anonymous 09/25/17 (Mon) 22:31:13 No.798
Depends on the school. There's two types of CS programs. Ones that pump out java monkeys to compete with pajeets, and another that teaches you everything about how computers work so you can grasp how other languages work.
As you noticed, the later weeds out a lot of people. But from a business standpoint, as a university, you want as many students as possible. Weeding people out is basically lost tuition to these schools. The code monkey CS degrees have been getting more and more popular.
If you're looking at a school, and they're not explaining compilers, CPU architectures, and giving you lots of math, it's a code monkey CS degree and it's a complete waste of time.
It's shit, now. It started going to shit in the '90s when (((college administrators))) realized student debt was at a level that would require a taxpayer bailout so they've been racing to increase tuition and lower barriers to claim as much as they can can before you're forced to pay for it. Students coming out of college even at formerly great schools are now having trouble with fizzbuzzalikes in interviews. This is massively different than it used to be.
To the deluded European in the thread, Northern European schools died from the brain drain caused by the economic collapse you still don't recognize happened. The few schools you still have worth anything (TU Delft, maybe) are using your tax dollars to train the US's employees as no one wants to stay in your Islamic rapehole, your companies all moved to the US, and France and the UK destroyed their tech sectors with labor laws and taxes.
If you put in effort, it's worth it. You can scrape a pass without giving a fuck about programming but that won't do anything for you.
Just make sure you get into a good uni. It doesn't matter whether you get a degree in the US or Europe, if you go to a degree mill you're getting a shit education and a worthless degree.
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Our CS program was dogshit and I'm from EU. It was basically 30% math, 10% filler subjects, 60% old school CS (mostly C++, some C and after that just algorithms, data structures and specific branches of CS that we were free to use whatever language we like most of the time).
The main problem was that we barely touched any specific subject for more than two weeks and we cramed all of it and then dismissed the next week with something completely different. No building foundation, no incremental learning. They literally didn't even teach us version control.
After 3 years, I have absolutely nothing to show for it. Most of the programming I so today, I learned by myself. It was huge waste of time, the only good thing is that I have a piece of paper so corporate HR drones can be impressed by.
Studying CS made me depressed and fat. Right now I am doing some Android app development freelancing and want to get the fuck out of programming and into system administration. I often wish I was doing something more practical for work. Outside in sun, with hands, you know...