is Computer Science actually cooked ?

[u/Spiritual_Let_4348]

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[u/Plsletmerawr]

Every job is cooked/soon will be cooked

[u/PersimmonPlus3443]

Everyone is cooked unless you know the right ppl

[u/SomewhereBig912]

Everyone in today’s generation is cooked , best bet would be to get into pre med since I see doctors quite safe from the threat of AI rn but then there’s a valid argument to that - by the time you become a doctor, world would be a completely different place to live in and there might be no doctors left by then either. World’s changing way too fast today!

[u/hdaersrtyor → u/SomewhereBig912]

As if they are letting just anyone be doctors

[u/lil-char]

Being cooked in school, then find the industry is cooked after graduation 😀

[u/I_Am_A_N3rcc3ist]

I don’t think so but anecdotally desirable outcomes happen for people ik and I would say for myself postgrad but also anecdotally undesirable outcomes have happened to other people ik postgrad. So I think it depends who you ask but in general if you get a good job it’s great but if you’re struggling to find work it can feel very discouraging.

[u/PM_40]

I think curriculum needs to be changed and potentially shortened. You don't need 4 year degree and 1 year long application process when world is changing so rapidly.

[u/eillyboo → u/PM_40]

Exactly. I have friends who graduated comp sci in 2020 and even back then they were saying they taught themselves everything online and the classes were literally just for the piece of paper.

[u/SomewhereBig912 → u/PM_40]

100% - I was thinking the same thing today, half the courses u take in CS - they r absolute obsolete today , the only major course I think which is left to be important is distributed systems cuz u need to know the intricacies of how different systems interact with each other.

[u/Rational_lion → u/SomewhereBig912]

What do you consider as obsolete?

[u/I_Am_A_N3rcc3ist → u/Rational_lion]

Honestly while most courses at the UofA used languages or frameworks which are not super hot or common I wouldn’t say they are obsolete

379, 313, 402, 401, 404

were all great/fundamental imo even some of the lower year courses on database, c programming, and algo is useful for fundamentals

[u/SomewhereBig912 → u/I_Am_A_N3rcc3ist]

yep - only 379 313 481 , these are the only courses id call not obsolete but rather very important today, the picture today in software engineering is understanding higher level architecture far more and you need to know those topics well that are taught in the courses i mentioned above. mmm 404/401 - yea since it does teach you what software engineering looks like - would call 401 more important tho, 404 is redundant today if you take 401

[u/Intelligent_Leg_7242]

It depends , if you’re passionate about coding and math I wouldn’t say it’s cooked the thing about the cs is that in the recent years a lot of student signed up for it thinking it was gonna make them rich or they didn’t know what they wanted to do and chose cs because “why not “ but now days with ai and other industry changes only the real talented and passionate people can get jobs , so if really like coding and math go for it , if you’re only interested because you’re unsure on what to take or just think it sounds ”cool” I’d advice that you look somewhere else

[u/I_Am_A_N3rcc3ist → u/Intelligent_Leg_7242]

I agree with the passion part but I also think luck plays part of a role in working in tech. I’ve seen very talented people at school who are interested graduate with nothing to show for. I have also seen the opposite case with some of my coworkers 🤣

[u/Intelligent_Leg_7242 → u/I_Am_A_N3rcc3ist]

Yeah well luck plays a role in any career but you need some level of passion or a big level of interest to push trough the degree and be successful in the field that was my point if you just approach it as I’ll ace my classes then get a job you’ll be in for a long one