Computer Scientists vs A-Level Comp Sci Exam

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[samanthaperry]

A level/gcse student: *gets a good mark*

Government: *they are getting too good at this, let's add some more content and get rid of the extra help on the front*

[pitou]

That goes to show even the top computer scientist uses stack overflow

[DanzelDangleben]

"its a lie"
"I cant even fix my own wifi in my room!"


i like that girl!!!!

[BingtheLizard]

Proof that when you have completed generalized study, a vast percentage of said study will either be forgotten or irrelevant to the specialized knowledge which you gradually obtain in a much more specific field.

[shubhpatel]

Let's not forget that this is an advertisement

[CombuskenKid]

University teaches you how to think properly. That's the biggest thing you learn in a computer science degree I think. But remembering all the extra fluff is just that, fluff and isn't needed.

[soonny]

70% of what I took away from A-level (biology, maths, physics, chemistry) was irrelevant in medical school. 50% of what I took away from medical school has no real-world applications in clinical practice.

As a doctor, I access maybe 20% of my knowledge to help my patients because this knowledge is privileged information. That is, they aren't information readily available on the internet (i.e. how the health system works, different streams of funding, the right people to contact for specific problems etc.) Most patients do most of their research on Google before they come to see me and they know a lot more about themselves than I ever will.

Also, these days, I spend more time curbing misinformation rather than giving information. Lol. Much of my job involves calming patients down because the internet is very scary.

[jsn]

I got high 90's in my A-level maths and continued to get a degree in engineering. Around Jan this year, I decided to go over a past paper from my A-level maths, and I'm not embarrassed to say that I struggled with many of the questions. All of my defining knowledge is developed through experience. A static exam has its place for comparative measurement between peers, but it really has no place in the 'real world'

[potatojam]

In my programming class we take exams with full access to the internet, Stack Overflow and our books, to imitate the work of real programmers... you still need to have a good understanding of the concepts to be able to use those tools.

[limegpt]

"Write SQL off the top of my head?"

Honestly that should be easy as f for basic SQL

[DotaLife]

This is true for every single degree you can get.
They throw walls of text at you expecting you to memorize them as if you wouldn't be able to research a solution on the spot and somehow need to have every answer ready at the top of your head. They don't bother teaching you how to think, just what to think.

[lldm]

Just a word of encouragement. I failed A-Level computing. But I'm now a 3rd year computer science student who has already found a job as a software engineer. There are a lot of factors to being successful like teachers and environment. so you shouldn't feel down and just keep on trying to progress

[Sir-Smiles]

Obviously they are all very intelligent individuals but this just goes to show that passing standardized assessments and understanding your field are two completely different things. Personally i think the latter is where formal education fails.

Probably why the top entrepreneurs and executives say that they don't really care about degrees.

[divyabhagat]

im revising for my exam now and seeing that they were struggling has made me so happy i loved this video.

[batabatonica]

Goes to show that in the real world you don't even need most of the theorical stuff they teach you

[aeoniannox]

"Some people can do it, I am not one of those people"... count me in 😭😭😭

[johncorum]

Seeing this makes me feel a little better about not being the smartest in my CompSci classes

[MobiusCoin]

SQL is the most "human" sounding language out of all of them though.

[timsecond]

They sound like my friends who always complain the questions but still got an A in the exam. 😅

[ThatGreatGuyYouKnow]

At my school, there are seperate programs for computer science and computer engineering. Computer science deals more with high level language programming and much more software theory while computer engineering has more of an emphasis on low-level/computer architecture. I hear things about logic gates, D flop flops, and program counters which I learned from my digital systems classes (comp eng) while my friend can run circles around me about frameworks and code. But cmon. SQL can be learned in a day if you really tried.