The ones that prepared me most to be an engineer I actually took in Scotland when I studied abroad. There I took a course about the Internet which was like 2 courses put together, it was half front-end and half back-end.
But to be honest, I don't think any one class prepared me to be an engineer. I think having experiences with internships helped more. I don't think any college course has a class where if you screw up, you can make a company lose millions of dollars.
Any fun nuggets from those two courses about "the Internet" ? Was it a technical course or more historical?
I recently read The Victorian Internet which is about the advent of the telegraph. And Ben has recommended Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet as a similar book on the origins of the internet.
Just curious if you encountered anything in those courses that might be fun/surprising to the rest of us.
It was technical. I did take a super interesting course in college about the theory of computing. An ex buddhist monk taught it. There was a lot of questions about life that came up.
I had to choose all of my classes actually!
The ones that prepared me most to be an engineer I actually took in Scotland when I studied abroad. There I took a course about the Internet which was like 2 courses put together, it was half front-end and half back-end.
But to be honest, I don't think any one class prepared me to be an engineer. I think having experiences with internships helped more. I don't think any college course has a class where if you screw up, you can make a company lose millions of dollars.
Any fun nuggets from those two courses about "the Internet" ? Was it a technical course or more historical?
I recently read The Victorian Internet which is about the advent of the telegraph. And Ben has recommended Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet as a similar book on the origins of the internet.
Just curious if you encountered anything in those courses that might be fun/surprising to the rest of us.
It was technical. I did take a super interesting course in college about the theory of computing. An ex buddhist monk taught it. There was a lot of questions about life that came up.
what kind of internships did you have?
Two software engineering internships. I was one of two "non-mainstream" college students accepted.