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Having gone through all of these course myself, I'm wondering if this stuff is really relevant to today's workforce? Compiler Design? How to build an Operating System?

I remember in a job writing my own BNF grammer and a a parser for it to optimize something or other and I got back basically "WTF" on the code review.

I would say database fundamentals is a must, so is networking. But honestly the rest is iffy. When was the last time you needed to build a red-black tree?

I think programming should be a larger part of CS. And no, not in Lisp. I also think ML needs to be more of a thing as well.

parent ascotan 6 years ago

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