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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 55 points 2 months ago

They sure love them some Java. It'd be nice if they focused more on C/C++/Rust, you know, actual bare metal system languages that make you think about memory management.

Edit: I used to have a roommate who was studying compsci and they were making him program a PIC18F microcontroller on a development board in assembly. It was kinda fun because while he wasn't using it, I'd have fun with it just programming normal C and making all the blinkenlights and gizmo peripherals on his board do shit, while he was struggling to even read a sensor.

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To be fair, this is my experience in academic computer science also

Edit: didn't click the link before commenting, this is referencing what universities already teach

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

To be fair, this is my experience in environmental sciences too.

But okay, it was pretty broad. Like, pretty much everything scientific, data.

But no language courses, not much programming, missing stuff here and there.

But my Uni also encouraged (actually enforced) to choose random extra courses.

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