Computer science

>tfw i studiously read every book on the left side during my undergrad
>tfw im struggling to find a job years later

What's a computer?

>thinking what you learned in undergrad matters even 10% when it comes to getting a job

Get a populated github full of good examples of solid code if you want to get a job. Nobody cares what textbook you used to learn what Big O notation meant lmao

Why not both?

This.

Because Ramad Sanjipajitharadadandi can get a job by using his low level entry experience and not being greedy, while John Williams can't find a job because he's taught to think by someone else's lecture and demands a 6 figure salary for paying for some paper.

Look man if you can't figure out how to get internships while you're a Computer Science undergrad student, and then graduate with a full time job, you are not motivated enough to succeed at anything.

I didn't have to go to school to get a tech job though. I'm self taught and I do better than most. I do contract programming and live a comfy life, while most others struggle.

You don't even need to finish school to get a job. All you need is some live projects you can show off.

I essentially dropped out 5 years ago and now I make 6 figures writing software. I see some of my past college mates posting PhD seminar slides on social media, talking about CI like it was theoretical physics. I found it funny as at the time I just had finished a project where I did all that the slides described - and beyond - without ever going to a class or reading a pile of books on it. Before that project I knew fuck all about CI.

We're just grown men playing with virtual legos. It's not fucking rocket science.

>while most others struggle.
Most others do not struggle, I don't know where the meme that programming somehow is a saturated field stems from, but I don't know a single person that didn't have a full-time job offer at least 6 months before getting their CS degree.

Sounds good. I went the conservative route of undergrad+internships, full time. I found it to be a super easy path.

How did you find clients as a contractor?

Honestly you got ripped off if you paid for school and onoy pesrned c++. The job market is just not there

You really got ripped off if you went to school and didn't learn the fundamentals so that you're essentially language agnostic.

Yes but youll always be much better at the lang you have spent thousands of hours with. May as well be something in high demand for job security

Eh I've randomly gone between C++, C#, Java, and Python in my career despite only using C++ and Java in college (and Ruby on my own).

They're all essentially the same, and I can just use an IDE and/or stackexchange when I forget how to use something in a particular language (usually some sort of string parsing issue).

You sound like a total retard, nice LARP

Yeah, c# and java are really similar.

>had the left algo book because the authors were PhD advisors and friends of the algorithm professors
Didn't do anything else that CS intensive though, my focus was largely in hardware and architecture.

> discrete math == random processes

why?

Nothing wrong with Sipser and D.P.V. u dip.

because CSfags are retarded

I don't know what country you're from. I graduated with a CS degree 2 years ago in Canada. Only about 20% of my class is currently employed.

I'm from Norway, ~70% from my class had job offers before they graduated and 99.999% were employed within a year after their graduation. In fact, I only know one guy that currently is between jobs, but he was a literal mentally ill autist that got fired from his last job because he actively tried to sabotage the project he was working on because he disagreed with the bracket style (I fucking wish this was a joke, but it's not). I actually hope he lurks Sup Forums, that would explain a lot of things for me.

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