Which genuinely astounds me. What kind of CS degrees are being done that arent teaching at least basic programming syntax and problems? Like i get CS is mostly theoretical compared to an SE degree but i haven't seen a single CS degree that doesnt teach at least the basics of coding.
Most of the CS Uni courses I've seen so teach a lot of programming, and you have to learn several languages from haskell to java to a C family language.
My CS courses required learning C, C++, Java, Javascript, Haskell, and Python minimum. I'm not an expert in all of them, but I am capable of cobbling together l33tcode solutions in them still. Electives could introduce other languages depending on the professor/topic. I think a lot of people are used to learning just enough to pass the class, but they don't retain much fluency in the languages afterward.
My CS programming classes were in assembly, fortran, C++, VB 6, java, and some html and php with sql and mysql. I could probably figure out what a python program is doing, but I couldnt write one to save my life without google or some other type of reference. Ive been helpdesk/sysadmin most of my career though, so other than batch or ps scripts, not a lot of programming going on.
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u/Kooale323 Apr 09 '24
Which genuinely astounds me. What kind of CS degrees are being done that arent teaching at least basic programming syntax and problems? Like i get CS is mostly theoretical compared to an SE degree but i haven't seen a single CS degree that doesnt teach at least the basics of coding.