missing-semester VS computer-science

> The realization came a few weeks ago when someone shared The Missing Semester of Comp Sci on HN. It’s full of basic things you’d expect any programmer to somehow magically know … but they don’t learn this anymore. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

I do feel somewhat jealous though that these resources are now available for students to learn in a structured, borderline spoon-fed way when this stuff took me a number of years and hacking around to build up and gain muscle memory over. Still, I think the knowledge you struggle to learn yourself sticks around a lot longer than knowledge that was fed to you from school. :shrug: I could see it either way.

> "Why does it have to be so complicated? I just want to install a program"

> "Why would you do that in the command line? It's way easier using $Program"

A concerning observation that’s slowly dawning on me is that more and more programmers don’t know how computers work. They can write code, build software, and do lots of useful things. But they have no idea how computers work. They’re more akin to lusers as we used to call them than they are to hackers of old.

Fantastic at their specialty and the tools they use. But move a button to an unfamiliar place or throw them into a new (but fundamentally same) environment and they’re lost.

The realization came a few weeks ago when someone shared The Missing Semester of Comp Sci on HN. It’s full of basic things you’d expect any programmer to somehow magically know … but they don’t learn this anymore. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

Seeing that link shared connected the dots in my mind. I’ve been wondering for months ”Why does everyone at work have so many random local environment issues all the time?” … it’s been working fine for me for years. Same code and hardware. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is a webpage I refer people often to: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

This from MIT is called "The missing semester of your CS education" and provides some practical hands on skills like Git https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

The Missing Semester: Made to address shortcomings in software engineers and teacher Vim.

Dropped out of my CS course in semester 3 because of this, avoiding 100k in tuition debt and currently learning through ossu instead.

And OSSU courses: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

gotta add ossu to this. https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

I have moved on to learning through a OSSU. It is located here: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science It is an open source free university that offers nothing other than free resources for multiple learning paths. It is based on GitHub and uses discord to communicate. It has been a great learning environment. I have learned so much. About 3 or 4 months ago I decided to start practicing what I had learned. This was because I was unhappy with my ability to use the knowledge I had gained and felt using it and practicing by actually developing was necessary until I hit a metaphorical brick wall.