Well there isnt much “science” in computer science these days. Spaghetti code and reinventing the wheel (see the js word) dont always cause business issues, so why not?
The case against CS master’s degrees
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Re: The case against CS master’s degrees
#132You would not succeed for a msc without proper knowledge of undergrad stuff at my uni.
Msc is about doing research not about becoming a good programmer.
Re: The case against CS master’s degrees
#133Someone without a formal CS education who's selling programming courses telling you that formal CS courses don't necessarily teach you programming (duh). He has a point that if you do a Master's you might be going without the extremely useful basic algorithms and data structures courses, but that is easily avoided by choosing a program that lets you take that. For other topics that aren't strictly programming, eg AI,…
Well the material that the authors have collected on teachyourselfcs.com is: 1) free 2) taken from outstanding courses at Berkeley, Stonybrook (the illustrious Steven Skiena), MIT and Stanford. As I see it, this is evidence that those schools have some good courses. Graduate systems courses are pretty great as well, and of course you can hit other areas such as computer graphics, AI/ML, etc.. For formal education, I'…
*Stony Brook (can't fix typo due to HN's aggressive comment freezing)
Re: The case against CS master’s degrees
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
The author's argument was immediately diminished the moment it became obvious they had something to sell.
Doesn't this line of thinking apply to every university too then?
Only those that put out 'The case against self-study' essays (of which there might be some, I don't know).