My impression is that computer science education is light-years behind things like physics and math.
I feel a lot of it has to do with the amount of money you can make straight out of college even as a mediocre coder, compared to the low-paying, unrewarding mess that education currently is.
Good on you for trying to do things right :) I was lucky to take the non-self paced version of CS61A, and I do think the class is top-notch. But even then there's tons of room for improvement, but no one has the time. We're all too occupied with our start-ups here (professor was amazing, but it says a lot that he was a full-time employee of Google while he taught our class).
I feel a lot of it has to do with the amount of money you can make straight out of college even as a mediocre coder, compared to the low-paying, unrewarding mess that education currently is.
Good on you for trying to do things right :) I was lucky to take the non-self paced version of CS61A, and I do think the class is top-notch. But even then there's tons of room for improvement, but no one has the time. We're all too occupied with our start-ups here (professor was amazing, but it says a lot that he was a full-time employee of Google while he taught our class).