What's an aspect of your job that college didn't prepare you for? (lemmy.world)

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[-] JustSomePerson@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

It doesn't require university level study to understand. You took Comp Sci, not applied software development. If you can pass Comp Sci, you should be able to use a system like git without it having been part of a tertiary level curriculum.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 10 months ago

it doesnt require university level study to understand

Yeah you can learn it outside of uni but I could say the same for anything in that course. Students wouldn't know they need to learn it because they haven't worked in the industry.

During the course you are doing projects with multiple people. Looking back it would have been a great place to introduce version control.

[-] JustSomePerson@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

If you were to study version control in a comp sci degree, you would study the way it's implemented, not how to use it. The data models for how to store and access repositories of many files with many changes is interesting, and can have different aspects depending on if it is text content or binary. Is it optimal to store each file as an aggregate of its diffs, no matter how many. Should there be snapshot points, etc?

Those are the aspects of version control that belong in tertiary level computer science. Learning how to use "git add" and "git push" don't.

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