Dropped our of high school but got my bachelors in comp sci.
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#22This is something I often wonder. Where does a 5-year engineering course fit? BE? BS?
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#24Not sure if I should call myself a dropout or not...
I finished my grad school and then job for 7.5 years. I quit job to startup. Also joined MBA.
Dropped off from the b-school after 2 semester. Found it too boring and too generic. Coursera is much better.
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Why do you regret it (unless it's too personal)?
I was at a state school paying a reasonable tuition to learn from a quality computer science program. I regret it because although I have written all sorts of frontend code, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, managed servers, I have still not "finished" learning what a CompSci student learns. I couldn't write my own compiler, I can't tell you which sorting method is fastest for certain data sets, etc. I have learned solely by…
Have you ever tried Coursera?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you regret it (unless it's too personal)?
I was at a state school paying a reasonable tuition to learn from a quality computer science program. I regret it because although I have written all sorts of frontend code, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, managed servers, I have still not "finished" learning what a CompSci student learns. I couldn't write my own compiler, I can't tell you which sorting method is fastest for certain data sets, etc. I have learned solely by…
You could try taking coursera algorithm classes intro Nd advanced. Yes the same book for official courses.
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#28College Graduate
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#29A nicer pool would be "would you hire people who took CS in online courses?"
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you regret it (unless it's too personal)?
I was at a state school paying a reasonable tuition to learn from a quality computer science program. I regret it because although I have written all sorts of frontend code, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, managed servers, I have still not "finished" learning what a CompSci student learns. I couldn't write my own compiler, I can't tell you which sorting method is fastest for certain data sets, etc. I have learned solely by…
Pick up Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming series along with Concrete Mathematics. I'm going through them myself right now (slowly, though) and the knowledge I've gained from those books is offsetting never having learned the fundamentals pretty well.