[codeivore]

>"MSc in some science (like it matters)"

a formal 400-level course in algorithms will go a long way, preferably at a good university with a good professor, but if you can't get that right now: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

computer science is a discipline where people seem to think the education doesn't matter that much, but the truth is once you start to get even a little mathy it matters big time

[usrbinbash]

> computer science is a discipline where people seem to think the education doesn't matter that much

I think when people say that education doesn't matter that much in our field; they are talking about formal education as offered in academia.

This is not to say that university education isn't valuable. But SE is unique among engineering disciplines because a) it is possible to learn everything relevant in self study and b) a lot of formal education in the area still teaches CS, when most people who attend the courses want to be engineers, not scientists.

[Fattestmoron]

The math behind leetcode is induction and number theory, courses I took some 20 years ago along with DSA that I haven't used in productive engineering since.

[npigrounet]

I agree. As soon as you start working in physics simulation, 3D rendering, signal processing (image, audio)... you realize that programming isn't just CRUD web apps.