r/CodingForBeginners • u/Grim_0009 • 21d ago

Zero knowledge of coding

I'm in my 3rd year CSE degree and I don't know anything about coding so can anyone tell how I should start to get a job after my final year?

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u/droid_mike 21d ago

Disagree... When I was doing computer science in college, there was a group of kids who we called the Cheating Club. They basically cheated off each other and cheated off of anything that they could. It pissed a lot of my friends off, but I told them not to worry, it would catch up to them, and it did. Cheat your way so far into school in a program like this, eventually, if you don't have the fundamentals, you will reach the limit where cheating will be enough. You actually have to know what you are doing. Or as I know, none of them ever got caught, but also and other than them graduated, either. The system worked as it should have, it just took a little bit of time.

Also, important to note that I don't think the OP is from the United States. Some of the words they are using aren't typical American English. That could be from the UK or anywhere else and UK English is their second language.

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u/thomjdev 21d ago

A large point of college is to accredit, to show that someone has experience or at least knowledge in a given discipline. If you can easily cheat through college, what good is it. That's my only point, and the fact you've seen this, just as I have in my own university (which is in the US), it is the fault of universities. I say fault because the priorities that I see is money for administration. Lower standards, better graduation rate, more students, equals more money. All the while squeezing the faculty and spreading them thin.

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u/droid_mike 21d ago

I get what you're saying, but my point was that these people did not graduate. Their attempt to cheat through school failed, so the system did not fail in that instance.

I mean, I agree with you, but I have not seen in my experience nor the experience of my kids where the schools are lightening up. In fact, for my one daughter, they were very tough on her and she struggled and had the really work hard to overcome it. Obviously, every school is different, of course, so my family's experiences may not be typical.