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Discussion on: What CS concepts should self-taught and bootcamp devs learn?

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Jake Z.

What I wish I had paid more attention to in school: algorithms and data structures, operating systems, and OOP design.

What I should have spent less time on: programming language theory (grammars/regex), networking theory, discrete structures and most of the heavier math courses.

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Annie Taylor Chen

Why do you think OS is more important? And network not so much? I think for a web developer I care less about OS and more the network, I haven’t studied either of them, just curious.