Last edit: 2025-01-04
I hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Matej Bel University. College was a waste of time.
Most classes taught me either something I had already known, or something it would have taken me 10-20 minutes to figure out on my own with the help of the internet.
Of all subjects there was only one I was not familiar with, but the teacher firmly believed it was my problem that I did not understand what he had to say. I do not care whose fault it was, what matters is I had to study it on my own.
The entire curriculum was too much about the details rather than the concepts. We were shown how to set an Arduino pin HIGH, but nobody taught us the crucial concepts: memory mapping, clock signal, bootloader, UART, SPI… Rather than explain the details, you would better off be teaching how to use an online search engine.
Usually the professors themselves claim the student’s success is approximately 20% the teacher’s effort, and the rest is the student’s self-studying. My claim is in 21st century one no longer needs the 20% part.
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