CS Education Mismatch: OS Class Diners vs. Real Skills
dosco · x · 2026-08-24
A viral tweet criticizing the disconnect between CS curriculum expectations and reality. The author describes the disappointment of taking a mandatory 'Operating Systems' class, hoping to learn to build Linux distros or hack mainframes, but instead facing a professor mathematically explaining the 'Dining Philosophers' problem in a 'sleepy ASMR voice.' A reply argues that much of this content should be learned before college, rendering half of the CS undergraduate curriculum 'useless basics.'
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