alt Hacker NewsI didn't suggest you should care about company selection processes.
But I would have been pretty angry to have been educated in topics that did not turn out to be useful in industry. I deliberately selected courses that I figured would be the most useful in my career.
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jrm4 • yesterday at 8:23 PM
Right, but that is the thing I pay attention to. Again, I want to hear from former students that I did right by them, not current companies asking for free screening.
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If I could go back in time and change what courses I took for my CS degree, it would be the exact opposite.
I wish I'd gone more into theoretical computer science, quantum computing, cryptography, and in general just hard math and proofs.
I took a few such courses and some things have genuinely been useful to know about at work but were also mind-expanding new concepts. I would never ever have picked up those on the job.
Not to say the practical stuff hasn't been useful too (it has) but I feel confident I could pick up a new language easily anytime. Not so sure about formal proofs.