There’s often a skill that seem interesting, but I can’t see doing anything for me in my day-to-day life. What have you learned that was a lot more effort than the payoff was worth?
There’s often a skill that seem interesting, but I can’t see doing anything for me in my day-to-day life. What have you learned that was a lot more effort than the payoff was worth?
I’m a big believer that computation should be a skill we learn in school. I think a lot of normal people would benefit from being able to make some simple scripts in python for personal use or even just for fun. I hope you don’t always think that the coding skills are useless <3. That said I agree the networking stuff you can throw out the window! I know enough to know that I will never fully understand how network topology works. Every time I get to the /24 or whatever that’s called my eyes start rolling.
As a network guy at work, it took me a long time to grok it, but now it amazes me how poorly these concepts are usually taught. They’re actually fairly straightforward in concept. Oh well, it means I have a secure job, and most people don’t really need to know.
Not just computation, but algorithmics. People should learn how to break down any complex task in a suite of simple, logical, deterministic steps and conditions.
At least it would help me stop getting requirement written in “human logic” that are literally impossible to implement…