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Re: 10000 things all CS students should do before graduating

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If you graduate with a degree and you can't configure the easiest web stack possible, then something went terribly wrong. I think you've confused your specialty with the whole of computer science here. I have no idea how to configure any sort of web stack, but I certainly think I got a good value out of my degree. I bet that many people who would have no idea how to go about writing device drivers if you gave them a…

Fair enough. I guess I've been living in web / cloud la-la land where that's 99% of what me and my peers do, I literally forgot there was non web-based CS work. My apologies.

>I literally forgot there was non web-based CS work

Surely there's not much of it, not with everyone's toaster now getting IP6 addresses and heart pacemakers having built in wireless web servers.

Re: 10000 things all CS students should do before graduating

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Difference in specialties. I'm in my mid 40's and I've been programming since I was 18. The very first time I had to configure a web server was about 5 months ago when I got nginx running on my laptop. Ask me about microcontroller programming or writing code to control the real world and I'll talk your ear off. Ask me about web stuff and my knowledge stops at PHP.

Valid point, but if you were writing code meant to run on the web, you should be expected to know a little bit about the server stack that will host your application.

The point is that not all CS students (and later graduates) write code for the web.
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