RE: Adventures in CS-112: earthexe Takes an Introductory Computer Science Class
10-23-2016, 11:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-23-2016, 11:34 AM by Loather.)
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seriously though my own experience with college wasn't this bad, but it also wasnt great. i wanted to learn programming. both of the community colleges i went to only offered computer science degrees that'd have maybe one class on one language mixed with a ton of liberal arts classes and a few IT-work-related classes. technical college had a much better ratio of classes relevant to the degree (as well as a degree specifically for software development), but there were issues there too. the whole program felt really secondary in the school administration's eyes, there were a lot of filler classes that were required (one for microsoft access, and also a keyboarding class like this is middle school or something, seriously what was up with that, how many hunt-and-peckers would even try to get into programming). one professor was having to teach three or four different languages at once, and some other languages got combined into a single class and were taught by someone else, someone who only sort of knew what they were doing- php and javascript, specifically- and it was sort of an html class too! and there were maybe.. ten to twenty people in that entire program?
the technical college also had a habit of choosing languages by what employers are looking for not nationwide, but in their super redneck-y east texas town that sits 30 minutes from the nearest other town. so there'd be no classes on java, but there would be classes on visualbasic.net and c#. before i left there were rumors about the college wanting to stick a class on some powerpoint knockoff into the software development curriculum as well, just because a local company was using it
seriously though my own experience with college wasn't this bad, but it also wasnt great. i wanted to learn programming. both of the community colleges i went to only offered computer science degrees that'd have maybe one class on one language mixed with a ton of liberal arts classes and a few IT-work-related classes. technical college had a much better ratio of classes relevant to the degree (as well as a degree specifically for software development), but there were issues there too. the whole program felt really secondary in the school administration's eyes, there were a lot of filler classes that were required (one for microsoft access, and also a keyboarding class like this is middle school or something, seriously what was up with that, how many hunt-and-peckers would even try to get into programming). one professor was having to teach three or four different languages at once, and some other languages got combined into a single class and were taught by someone else, someone who only sort of knew what they were doing- php and javascript, specifically- and it was sort of an html class too! and there were maybe.. ten to twenty people in that entire program?
the technical college also had a habit of choosing languages by what employers are looking for not nationwide, but in their super redneck-y east texas town that sits 30 minutes from the nearest other town. so there'd be no classes on java, but there would be classes on visualbasic.net and c#. before i left there were rumors about the college wanting to stick a class on some powerpoint knockoff into the software development curriculum as well, just because a local company was using it