Re: Becoming a CS Major: Some Questions
So I am considering majoring in CS. Trouble is, there are a lot of options when it comes to that sort of thing. Could you all give me an idea as to what sort of assignments are you doing?
The problem I found in school is that the teachers are focused on one single way of doing something and that's the only way they teach that concept. It seems like they don't know anything else besides what the book tells them to memorize. Case and point, my current computer science teacher.
Our school has something called BPA. BPA is where students get together in teams and code something that follows a prompt that is given to them. The coding can be done in any language of the team's choice, but when chosen the language can not be changed.
When I found out about it I was like "Cool! I wana do that! How do I get started?"
Who do you think I asked first? If you guessed my teacher, you're correct. I was learning Python at that point and I go "So, what are some good tutorials for me to start with?" I can not describe to you the combinations of umms and uhs my teacher produced, but what I can tell you is that she ultimately said "I don't know."
You're telling me that the leader and the coordinator for an event does not know what to start with when it comes to Python? You could argue that she never worked with it, but she's teaching a class on it, so... Yeah...
So, are college professors better than that? Are they more experienced, or do they just memorize from the book and that's all they know? Do they know multiple ways of accomplishing the same task and the benefits/drawbacks to each method, or do they insist on you doing a task in a certain way and tell you that that is the only correct option?
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