The Open Source Computer Science Degree
The Open Source Computer Science Degree
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This is a really neat idea but I would like to see all the Java replaced with C/C++ or Rust.
The ReadMe suggests these courses are administered and taught by Universities. I'm genuinely curious if you know of any Computer Science courses taught at any of these reputable universities that utilizes Rust or C?
Compsci is not really about 'languages'. I mean they are, but they are not about 'x language vs. that language'. It's about 'how to make languages'. Just one of the subjects! It's much more expansive. I think a course with a lot of language-focused stuff is either garbage, or SWE! Most computer science students need to learn how to use any language, any time. Take me for example, I gave my education history (and future) in other posts ITT. I don't have any issues picking up a new language's syntax. Because of "Curry-Howard Isomorphism" (or "Correspondance") the "syntax" of languages is always the same. Another thing is Church-Rosser confluence. All syntactic constructs are confluence to one another if they can be reduced to the same mathematical bases! As for learning the standard library, which is the harder task, well there's always documentation! I think standard libraries are the essence of these languages. Not the syntax of them.
Apologies if this came out as too dick-ish. I'm just trying to open people up to new dimensions of thinking. Download Michael Sipser's book which I explained how to get in my other post ITT and get learnin' Automata theory!
Also AFAIK, it's highly country-dependent but most American colleges teach functional languages like OCaml or Haskell for obvious reasons (they are more 'theoretical').
In my opinion this comes off as just passionate about the subject, not as I AM RIGHT YOU ARE WRONG GO DIE IN A FIRE YOU DUMBASS YOUR CODE IS DOGSHIT BTW (yes, I may be referencing a specific harsh comment about a project I saw on Lemmy), but my perception could be very colored by your disclaimer about not wanting to come across as a dick.