I can top this. My Assembly professor taught LEGv8 in lecture, told us to review the book the coded in MIPS. Then gave us assignments that required us to write in ARMv8.

I usually just say I'm making a web app or something they can latch their knowledge onto.
I'll explain a small easy part of it. They ask a question, I either agree or correct them. Turn it into a teachable moment.

My Tech. Comm. Professor said when you throw a bunch of jargon at a person, you don't look smart, you look like an asshole.

So I explain things in as simple a language as possible. Not saying your an asshole, just what my professor taught us about using jargon .

@sethgoodluck
You the real MVP

That's too real....stawp....

A tall glass of depression chased with anxiety.

I did once see a job posting for a react developer with 6 years of experience and it was just dumb founding. I will try to find it to show everyone

I can agree with you on this we have a professor named mr. Thompson at our University who takes a pay cut from being a normal professor and runs his business on the side.

He is the best professor at our University even though he makes a fraction of what the other professors make.

I would learn so much from his classes.

When you find this out usually it leads you to join clubs and seek outside instruction which is the best skills of a software developer

Those skills being seeking a community and researching on your own.

I'm not saying it's good but it is one of the effects.

I think the issue here is that they believed that you already know how to break down a problem into simple components.

it's the curse of knowledge if you would.

I would say that taking a class in assembly really help me strengthen those lessons I learned about problem solving.

@naylik it's not your fault those guys are just assholes

I also had an interview for an internship where they wanted me to make an entire POS system app for them, for the interview and I just noped the hell out of there.

Nowadays A CS degree just feels like some ticket to a high-paying job and not valuable instruction.

@franga2000
They should at the very least teach about model-view-controllers and single-page-applications or any framework for that matter

@CoffeeNcode
How do you cope?

I spent a good 10 hours into FreeCodeCamp. I can say that if you have 0 experience. It's a solid boot camp. If you have experience, then it can get a bit repetitive. Solid Boot camp though.

@securiter
You must have studied Karate for a long time to know of Unagi.

@securiter
Isn't that a type of sushi?

@Tawzer
I don't know, dude. My CS program never required me to learn that. My Technical Communication minor, however, did require it.

@securiter I got it off of reddit, but yea it's a pretty solid Venn diagram. I reference it a lot when I question the direction I am going.

You have to find your center.

He could be a terrible test taker or really good at office politics.

@AlinaWithAFace
So like a graduate track specialization track? I could see that. 2 years of general computer science and then 2 years of specialization. That's a pretty good idea, but universities are so archaic and set in their ways, i doubt it would ever occur.

Is the class you're in also a class for BCIS? Thats the only way I'm seeing you using Microsoft office in a class for anything other than note taking.

@AlinaWithAFace
I would say that CS would need to move towards a more blue collar position for something like that to occur.

That and CS is so broad you could easily cut it up into different degrees.
For example, Devops, Software Engineering, Solutions Architecture, stuff like that.

@gitpull I would love to. Would I just post a video? Seems like a large file or I could just link to it from our website.

CS Senior here. I've read a few of the complaints here and I run a few clubs full of complaining students.

I would say the main problems are CS courses missing the mark completely on what is relevant to the industry and not updating their curriculum since the 80s.

I say the second one because we had a guest we had a guest speaker from SMU who wanted to use his own updated material, which in his in all fairness it was great material, but my University shut him down and said you had to use the standard they had in place

I'm down to help if you want to get this off the ground. I know a few friends who could benefit from this

Is it just experience or professional experience?

I think there is a difference, but not sure.

The compromise, I believe, is to create more project based courses that promote self study and team work.

Many of the skills I learned we're by doing projects and teaching myself while pursuing my degree.

There is a bad mentality in my major though about learning enough to get the ticket out. That mentality is brought on by teaching out of date lessons. Not sure how to fix this except grin and bear it.

Usually you have to step away from the bug to understand the bug and how to fix it. You wouldn't believe how many times I just took a break after spending 5 hours on a bug, to end up solving it immediately the next day.

Frustrating AF.