GSOC Linker project
Jacob Carlborg
doob at me.com
Mon May 7 12:43:07 PDT 2012
On 2012-05-07 20:13, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 07:21:54PM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Sometimes I wonder what do students learn in modern CS courses.
> [...]
>
> Way too much theory and almost no practical applications. At least, that
> was my experience when I was in college. It gets worse the more
> prestigious the college is, apparently.
>
> I'm glad I spent much of my free time working on my own projects, and
> doing _real_ coding, like actually use C/C++ outside of the trivial
> assignments they hand out in class. About 90% of what I do at my job is
> what I learned during those free-time projects. Only 10% or maybe even
> less is what I got from CS courses.
So true, so true. I feel exactly the same.
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/Jacob Carlborg
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