
With Jason Swett: when data structures, big-O notation and algorithms were completely useless...
Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits
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The Importance of a Professional Career
"I feel like professors as a rule are pretty bad about thinking of themselves as preparing you for a professional career," he says. "The reason you become a professor is that you want to be part of a grand and universal truth." The problem is the practical day to day, minute to minute, it changes between now and 100 years from now,. Carnegie Mellon where I went to school didn't used to have a computer science degree because they felt a computer was a tool.
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