Unlike most programmers I went the industrial route before going the academic route. I have over 5 years of professional programming experience and am self-taught. In those 5 years, my only interactions with the modulus operator was removing it from our codebase. Interns who were fresh out of college seem to enjoy using it; those dumb fucks. Any, continuing with my rant. I eventually decided that I wasn't moving up the corporate ladder so I decided to pursue a degree in CS. My "intro into programming" class as you can imagine has been laughably easy. I quickly gained a reputation as the best student in my class. My peers looked up to me and considered me a role model. I was so popular and cool. Then one day our dumb fuck professor gave us a quiz. I couldn't solve his quiz because I did not know how to use the piece of shit modulo operator. I kept trying to use the division operator hoping it would solve the problem but to no avail. Not only was I embarrassed for not being able to solve the problem in front of my peers, earlier that day I pulled the professor aside and told him that his lectures were boring to me and that he should let me skip his class. It was like he gave me this problem just to put me back in my place and deflate my ego. I am now too embarrassed to face my peers. I went from being self-taught prodigy to a novice; the class room's laughing stock; basically an ass clown. Then to add insult to injury the processor said, "a CS graduate should be able to solve this type of problem in 10 minutes." Fuck you professor *, you Chinese mother fucker. I am not racist but fuck China and its people.
I love it how people are trying to define how a computer science class should be. The truth is, CS is a relatively new subject and it has not been fully defined. Don't trust anyone claiming to know what it's about.
No matter how good your professor is at teaching, in the end it's up to you to do the learning. If you're good at using programming libraries to solve problems, you might think you're really smart, and you probably are, because it's hard. But it took you years to learn it. Because you're so good at stringing libraries together you know all there really is to programming and computer science, right? Getting the degree is just a formality.
Guess what? Programming is hard. Math is hard. Statistics and probability theory are hard. Algorithms are hard. Being good at one doesn't make the other ones any easier. It takes effort to learn these.
Using libraries is like building a Lego house. That's fine, but sometimes you need a specific piece that nobody's built before exactly. You often need to know how to build the smaller things. You don't want to live at the mercy of the library writers.
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Anonymous2015-09-17 9:39
>>43 I know what computer science is all about. The name "computer science" is actually a misnomer as a description of the nature of this study. An accurate title for this study is "mathematical analysis of computation with data".
>>36 Computer science begins with Math 101 and Physics 101. Computer science is not about design patterns, programming patterns or software engineering principles. It sounds like don't want to study computer science, you actually want to study software engineering. You should stop your computer science degree and go look for a software engineering degree.
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Anonymous2015-09-17 16:29
>>45 I wasn't aware of the existence of software engineering degrees. Interesting. My school doesn't seem to offer it. Almost all jobs ask for a computer science degree. Is software engineering real or is it a made up degree that is only available in select colleges.
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Anonymous2015-09-17 20:50
>>46 Seems there's a lot you aren't aware of. At this point, why do you even bother?