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- Feb 21, 2020
Most of people I knew from the CS freshman class dabbled in programming as a hobby before or made games for fun as kids. There were people who wanted to make games but knew nothing and dropped out quickly. The field changes so fast, spawning zillions of esoteric frameworks each year, people go legit insane trying to play catchup when they're not a young adult anymore. Some people were in blind, just for the money and later found themselves a relatively boring but stable niche like hardware coding or database wizardry.Kind of a weird question, but do people who pursue comp sci/coding/game design/etc. degrees generally have some background in it? Whether it be just as a hobby or even some dabbling in a professional setting. How many people actually go into a program completely blind?
I ask because when I went into an ag program at a four year university, nearly all of the students had a background in it and it was pretty much assumed, even in 100 level classes, that you knew the basics. Is it like that with comp sci?