learning from job applications
Another New Year’s reflection. Last New Year’s, I was thinking about the potential coursework and things I could be or wanted to be learning (https://blog.yougao.dev/life/future-studies/).
This year I have started filling gaps in knowledge. A good way to fill gaps was to look through job applications in the tech industry. CS curricula are designed from both a bottom-up and top-down approach. However, there are some untaught concepts at the bottom and some software at the top.
As a CS student, you don’t study the “basic” installation of physical infrastructure, nor do you study the commonly deployed software systems. A CS degree doesn’t prep you for an “IT”, “sysadmin”, or “DevOps” role, which makes sense as most come out as software developers.