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Lews
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Jun-30-2013 09:28
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Lagrangian
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Location: Mountain View, Santa Clara, California
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quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Don't have a major planned out yet, and it'd probably be Winter 2015 when I graduate.
Honestly it seems stupid to keep going to school for CS stuff. I look at every single high level CS class and its either something you will NEVER use in the real world and I already know how to do it (or could figure it out in a week or two) or its so simple that I already know it.
At least in graduate level courses you get into stuff thats so abstract that its purely useful on a research level... Compiler design is senior level under-grad/graduate school work though, and well I just decided to pick it up and start learning it and I've got pretty much the basics down in 2 months of working on my own. |
Ok, but have you sat these classes? Or, have you skimmed through the syllabus? How far into your math requirements are you? I had a surplus of math courses when I transferred to my CS undergrad program since I couldn't handle being a Physics major with little to no job prospects outside of academia.
A CS senior in most four year unis obtains a working knowledge of Computer Architecture and Virtualization. My first job was as a junior programmer using the .NET foundation working on sockets and network programming.
A CS degree does not necessarily make you a good programmer. The thing is, you have to stick to the plan--if you want to major in CS you have to sit those classes, even if overqualified for them. This is a big issue.
You should focus on completing all math requirements : Cal 1-2 Discrete Calculus of Finite Differences your Calculus-based physics1-2. These should keep you busy for a while. Remember, you might be brilliant, but to graduate you have to pass.
Best of luck.
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Jun-30-2013 19:58
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Joss Weatherby
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Registered: May 2008
Location: The Pacific Northwest, of course
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Thats what I am saying though. I have already worked professionally for many years (I have 15 years total experience programming), I have already got an extensive portfolio of high caliber, complex work, and I have an extensive number of contacts in the industries that I want to work in.
Going back to school might be a waste of money if I choose to follow CS all the way through.
Jobs that require a CS degree usually will take experience over a degree if the business is competent. Computer programming and software engineering is one of the few fields where on the job experience and learning will almost always trump anything you find in the educational field.
I have read the syllabi's for a number of high level CS courses, and like I said, they are either overly academic, as in they are teaching you things that either you'd never run into in real life or they are teaching them the "wrong" way as to how it would be found in any sort of professional team. The only classes that really are useful are hardware (processor) design courses, and thats getting closer to a EE degree, and on top of that its a highly specialized field, where you are looking to work at like 5 companies in the world.
I don't know. I am a bad ass programmer, I just am not sure if I should do it for school.
I should probably just go back to work instead of school.
Math is something I do need to focus on though and get better at. My math skills are rather spotty. I tend to learn what I need for a task and then I am like "ok well thats a nice little island of math knowledge". The sad fact is though that math often has very little to do with computer programming outside of some very specific fields.
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Jun-30-2013 20:22
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