meh - I had basically 2 data structure courses, which is not a "year of classes" since the class met for 1 hour, twice a week for about 20 weeks, and times 2 for that second semester. So I have 20 * 2 * 2 or 80 hours of O notation and heap sorting.
The rest of my CS degree consisted of a lot of stuff I used in class (assembly programming) and maybe I got something out of that. I also took a functional languages course which was taught with Scheme (a lisp dialect) which is a little iffy on practical skills. A formal database class (which was an elective)
So I know boyce codd normal form and o-notation, is that really much of an edge over the bootcampers after a few years?
And to be honest because everyone brings up O notation every time we have this talk I'm pretty sure most bootcampers learn that by looking it up and probably binary trees. Yeah. so I'm really not very convinced from a practical level how much more they're pulling.
It seems to me I was in the wrong classes altogether - the real money at this point is in ML and there's not much a CS degree helps with in that area really - so yea, the fundamentals did kinda change, right?
