> ridiculous amount of math and math proofs ... [vs.] a course designed to teach programming and programming concepts
Math, big-O, and proofs are programming concepts. If you want a shallow understanding of whatever programming languages and frameworks are in vogue this year so you can be handed down constrained requirements in a code mill where you are evaluated on how many lines of code you write per day, take a coding bootcamp. But know that after a few years your skills will be out of date and you will have a hard time keeping up with the field. If you want to solve hard problems that haven't been solved before, pay attention to that math and those proofs. I'm honestly just sick of people complaining about CS degrees for not spending enough time teaching React JS or Ruby on Rails. CS degrees are for people who want to solve problems that are actually hard and new.
Seriously, do we ever hear physics majors complaining that they have to learn all this math that they're never going to use, in order to study the foundational cosmology of the universe? Why don't they just show me how to work the damn telescope!?
Math, big-O, and proofs are programming concepts. If you want a shallow understanding of whatever programming languages and frameworks are in vogue this year so you can be handed down constrained requirements in a code mill where you are evaluated on how many lines of code you write per day, take a coding bootcamp. But know that after a few years your skills will be out of date and you will have a hard time keeping up with the field. If you want to solve hard problems that haven't been solved before, pay attention to that math and those proofs. I'm honestly just sick of people complaining about CS degrees for not spending enough time teaching React JS or Ruby on Rails. CS degrees are for people who want to solve problems that are actually hard and new.
Seriously, do we ever hear physics majors complaining that they have to learn all this math that they're never going to use, in order to study the foundational cosmology of the universe? Why don't they just show me how to work the damn telescope!?