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2026-02-09 05:27 UTC
@puck@mastodon.nz @jason @vie@hachyderm.io @theotherbrook@sunny.garden Unfortunately the universities’ “solution” to this was to make the first year of the standard computer science course less difficult, rather than to try to figure out how to better direct students to the appropriate degree.
I say this as someone who dropped out of a top-tier undergrad CS program for academic reasons in the mid-1990s: I strongly suspect I’d have done just fine today, and that’s not actually good.
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@wolf480pl@mstdn.io 2026-02-09 09:49
@eschaton@mastodon.social huh, I started my CS degree in 2015 and the first year was difficult, and the dean was like "If you fail the first year, that's by design. It saves time for both you and us. If you fail the second or third year, that means we fucked up, and made you waste years of your life on sth that won't work for you." @puck@mastodon.nz @jason @vie@hachyderm.io @theotherbrook@sunny.garden