| being a CS major in India, I can't help but call bullshit. Knowledge, maybe. But when you put them in front of a computer, they can't write code. (Your mileage may vary though) I'm in my 2nd year, and it's incredible how these teachers teach computer science without computers. The ironic thing is that they have projectors in classes. They even have laptops. Most of my peers have laptops, I think. And still they teach with a blackboard. Just yesterday, my shell programming teacher wrote out the output of `ls -l` manually, by hand. She literally had it memorized. And said that we have to memorize it too, because of course, computer science is a written exam :) I never expected to see this kind of response on HN. Some of these people don't know how to turn on a computer, and keyboard typing is a long stretch. You really don't know what you're dealing with here! The admission process is fully exam based (physics/chem/math). I wasn't asked once, in the entire admission process whether I had ever used a computer in my life. Most parents don't let their kids use computers because they think it will spoil their childhood. I was fortunate enough to have good access to Internet and computers in my home. I admit that I spent a lot of time playing games, but I totally have a better understanding of how computers work. At least I'll be a cs major who actually knows how to code... |