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Daryl@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Computer Science is not learning to code.

In fact, most high end University Computer Science departments do not at any point teach a coding language. Coding languages are taught, in Canada, at Community Colleges and such.

Computer Science is all about developing, perfecting, and discovering the algorithms that are then transcribed to computer code by the junior IT technicians. Coders are a dime a dozen. It is the Computer Systems Designers, project architects, and project developers that make the big money.

A coder can only make good money if they have mastered a computer language that is not very common, like Kubernetes, [Kubernetes,] (kubernetes.io) And you will not learn that from a 'Kubernetes-for-Dummies book borrowed from the library,

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