| 38. Employers care about which courses they took.
Dark side: Employers care about your technical interviewing ability and your GPA. Technical interviewing focuses on a subset of skills around certain algorithms and data structures. The courses most relevant to interviewing will spend at most a couple of weeks on the topics you need to know well.
Bright side: There's so much to know in CS that regardless of what courses you take, you'll likely have to (or want to) learn more on the job. So, in college, you want to focus more on learning-to-learn technical material. Also, certain CS courses contain so much outdated/irrelevant info that you can more efficiently learn all you need to know on the job or through your own projects.
Dark side: Employers care about your technical interviewing ability and your GPA. Technical interviewing focuses on a subset of skills around certain algorithms and data structures. The courses most relevant to interviewing will spend at most a couple of weeks on the topics you need to know well.
Bright side: There's so much to know in CS that regardless of what courses you take, you'll likely have to (or want to) learn more on the job. So, in college, you want to focus more on learning-to-learn technical material. Also, certain CS courses contain so much outdated/irrelevant info that you can more efficiently learn all you need to know on the job or through your own projects.