Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132130

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It is an easy fix, teach only one language for the 6 core areas of programming, namely:

1) Intro to programming (variables, loops, conditions etc. up to functions) 2) Complexity management, usually OOP 3) Building a GUI (it is not trivial and needs to be a course on its own) 4) Connecting to a database (also not trivial) 5) Data Structures and Algorithms 6) Compilers and programming languages (basically popping the hood of programming)

In school, after learning OOP in Java we switched to web dev and learned javascript and php. We completely abandoned learning GUI and DB for java.

Algorithms was taught by a visiting lecturer in C++ and after mid-sem we switched to Data Structures in java??

The universities are doing a fine job, but please just stick to one programming language for these core areas and everything will be great.

I came to this conclusion before AI took over. It will be interesting to see how AI changes the Computer Science curriculum in the years to come.

Personal and physical security for founders, operators, and investors

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The ~10% good that comes from keeping in touch with people, for example, is not really worth it especially for kids.

Whatever you do you are going to have to deal with the negative aspects of society in-person, and we've all kind of accepted that. Social media just doubles the problem.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567467

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As we know from Moore's Law, new tech will emerge and it would most likely be based on existing tech you should have learned from school.

You are going to be just as well-paid as a networking, hardware or general software engineer and it will look good on your CV.

Also this forum is littered with << after all these years in tech i feel like i know nothing >> career existential angst. So learning that stuff in school would avoid that issue.

Stay in school kids. ;)

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I am constantly running into people who feel like they are missing something in their CS pedagogy without this rigorous math knowledge.

After many false starts to correct this, I think a good plan would be to enrol in an affordable long distance or online course in math - so it's not full time - and stick to a timetable and deadlines in order to faithfully complete the work and become as familiar with the material as it pertains to you, just passing where you need to pass and diving deep when it directly affects you and your work.

https://trace.tv/traceprime/

My strategy is to get to the 10th chapter of the book skipping the exercises, then go back and try them with a better overall understanding of the language and its nuances.

Great series.

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Housing policies, medicare and today's problem of defund the police can be better analysed if the framework of second-order thinking is used to view the pros and cons of such policies and their subsequent ramifications.

Second-order thinking is a great mental model to have and helps us address some of the cognitive biases that get in our way when making choices.

To me this form of thinking is evident in chess, the evaluation necessary to make a single move gets us to look at the consequences after the third and fourth move before a final decision is made.

I believe when the time allows for it we should really consider the future ramifications of our actions before making a move.

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