> In my first CS class at university the professor started with "We are not going to teach you programming. You can do it on your own time. This program is called computer science, and that's what it will cover."
That was my school. Because of the education system in Slovenia, we even looked down on software engineering a little. Engineering was the vocational college. We were a university program thankyouverymuch.
In reality, our program took 7.5 years to complete on average because people got jobs in industry and forgot to graduate.
BUT we did have 2 programming classes in the first year. It was considered necessary to give everyone an even playing field so they could do the tutorials. Those were heavy on “You learned all this theory, now put it to work”. We implemented programs in ARM assembler, various graph algorithms, numerical computation methods, stuff like that.
Just writing lots of code also taught you debugging. Many classes evaluated homework and even exams by running your code through a test suite. Your grade was percentage of tests passed.
And then there was the compilers class. Holy shit do you learn a lot about debugging when you’re fixing your code and your compiler at the same time. That was fun.
That was my school. Because of the education system in Slovenia, we even looked down on software engineering a little. Engineering was the vocational college. We were a university program thankyouverymuch.
In reality, our program took 7.5 years to complete on average because people got jobs in industry and forgot to graduate.
BUT we did have 2 programming classes in the first year. It was considered necessary to give everyone an even playing field so they could do the tutorials. Those were heavy on “You learned all this theory, now put it to work”. We implemented programs in ARM assembler, various graph algorithms, numerical computation methods, stuff like that.
Just writing lots of code also taught you debugging. Many classes evaluated homework and even exams by running your code through a test suite. Your grade was percentage of tests passed.
And then there was the compilers class. Holy shit do you learn a lot about debugging when you’re fixing your code and your compiler at the same time. That was fun.