“CS will prepare you for ‘real world’ software development like athletics training would prepare an army for battle.” arstechnica.com/information-…

Dec 2, 2013 · 6:36 AM UTC

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@stilkov "Dealing with ambiguity" seems to be the key theme there. I don't know how much of that can be taught vs. comes from experience
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@clemensv Matches my experience, but I still see super-smart people with 10+ years of experience struggle with it
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@stilkov are you choosing to study CS because you want to become a software developer? is that really the main goal of CS education?
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@dret If you think it is, you’re in for a surprise :-)
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@stilkov i like how things seem to branch a little into CS and informatics here in the US. seem like sufficiently different beasts to me.
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RT @stilkov: CS prepares you for real-world soft dev like athletics training prepares an army for battle arstechnica.com/information-… > @jgarzas
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