OK, I know its cool and stuff to learn fancy computer science techniques, but I'm going to disappoint you and tell you that you won't use any of it in the real world. When you get a business programming job (ie one that pays you enough to eat every day), you'll be doing mind numbing tasks like data migration scripts or generating that report that the CEO needed yesterday. Not much computer science involved, but a lot of hunting down data fields in poorly documented systems where the only guy who knows anything about it quit last month. Yes, its not a pleasant thought, but its the kind of job most graduates find themselves in, at first anyway.
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OK, I know its cool and stuff to learn fancy computer science techniques, but I'm going to disappoint you and tell you that you won't use any of it in the real world. When you get a business programming job (ie one that pays you enough to eat every day), you'll be doing mind numbing tasks like data migration scripts or generating that report that the CEO needed yesterday. Not much computer science involved, but a lot of hunting down data fields in poorly documented systems where the only guy who knows anything about it quit last month. Yes, its not a pleasant thought, but its the kind of job most graduates find themselves in, at first anyway.
Whose name is on the bill?