I think what is lacking in the CS world are the thinkers. I know an ample amount of people who can write a program (good or bad looking or efficiency). My problem is when I sit in on a development meeting to brainstorm or an architecture meeting where we attempt to find the best way to blaze our "new path", I am let down at the few with the light bulb over their head.
I was a CS major and I went through the motions and did well in the end, but it wasn't because of my studiousness, it was because I had a job already where I used my skills. CS to me felt like I was learning arithmetic and just skimming the surface because it was such a vast and overly generic major. If anyone who has been through the IT track can confirm that you at least rack your brains and put yourself in more situations that would help in the real world, I would take that path. Otherwise, the major wouldn't matter as much as what you do with it during college. Just going to college isn't enough. If you want to make a difference in this bloated CS world, fall in love with something and help us make the world better because of it:-)..... as long as it's not another f*#@ing YouTube.
scuba steve
I work for a company called SevOne. We write network management software (backend in C and PHP, front-end all web-based and PHP). I think about 70% of the codebase is very well written (though not maintained). Considering the complicated nature of the software we write, I think it's really made a huge impact on hiring new people and having them get right into it. Though that 30% thats left over looks like I tried to open a JPEG file in NotePad++:-(
If we can turn sand/soil into solid ground, we're one step further to dealing with the melting polar ice caps. I forsee a globe of man-built rock land! And if we need some more, we'll just dig it up out of the ever expanding oceans and BOOM!...instant land. It's all pretty simple really.
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I think what is lacking in the CS world are the thinkers. I know an ample amount of people who can write a program (good or bad looking or efficiency). My problem is when I sit in on a development meeting to brainstorm or an architecture meeting where we attempt to find the best way to blaze our "new path", I am let down at the few with the light bulb over their head. I was a CS major and I went through the motions and did well in the end, but it wasn't because of my studiousness, it was because I had a job already where I used my skills. CS to me felt like I was learning arithmetic and just skimming the surface because it was such a vast and overly generic major. If anyone who has been through the IT track can confirm that you at least rack your brains and put yourself in more situations that would help in the real world, I would take that path. Otherwise, the major wouldn't matter as much as what you do with it during college. Just going to college isn't enough. If you want to make a difference in this bloated CS world, fall in love with something and help us make the world better because of it :-). .... as long as it's not another f*#@ing YouTube.
scuba steve
I work for a company called SevOne. We write network management software (backend in C and PHP, front-end all web-based and PHP). I think about 70% of the codebase is very well written (though not maintained). Considering the complicated nature of the software we write, I think it's really made a huge impact on hiring new people and having them get right into it. Though that 30% thats left over looks like I tried to open a JPEG file in NotePad++ :-(
If we can turn sand/soil into solid ground, we're one step further to dealing with the melting polar ice caps. I forsee a globe of man-built rock land! And if we need some more, we'll just dig it up out of the ever expanding oceans and BOOM! ...instant land. It's all pretty simple really.