Most important and useful CS courses?

BeanTownGirl
Fri, 17 May 2013 10:33:54 +0000

I think a lot of the rants against software engineering course are from people who took a course **many years ago **that they didn’t find helpful. My son took an SWE course this year at WPI and said it was an excellent course.
I think it helps you learn how to apply the knowledge you get from other courses into the real world, where there are product requirements, quality assurance, human factors, iterative scheduling, presentations to management etc… A grizzled veteran has seen all this and the many historical theories about how to tackle major projects, but a student hasn’t.
Take a close look at the course syllabus and judge the course on its own merits. And it would be nice to to not stare blankly at an interviewer when he or she asks “we use agile development here, are you familiar with it?”. Not that I am advocating Agile ;)