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  • Depends on the career path. Some need only the very basics - for example in frontend development, you’ll mostly use % and basic +/-.


    tbh. Most of the useful programming related knowledge you’ll learn at yoyr first job, not at uni.

    The curriculum sometimes will force you to learn something unrelated to your career and it has multiple purposes:

    People learn the fastest in the topic where they already know a lot. And the slowest where they know very little.

    Learning stuff outaide of your comfort zone literally works out your brain. You learn to learn. And your thinking becomes more flexible.

    You should not become somebody who is only good at one narrow singular task and a complete idiot at anything else.

    You never know if it becomes useful later in life. So I suggest still trying to do your best at any topic. And studying more for the exams where you are not as proficient.


    As to which career path to go for:

    Don’t be afraid to change midway, but make sure that you enjoy it. If you enjoy compsci, keep at it. (Or if you have student loan, put some more thought into the cost of switching).











  • You can either decide by what is currently in demand in the industry and then pick a project that you can exercise that language with or you can think of a project you’d like to do and then go by what the best language is for a given project.

    In the end, languages are just like different wrenches. First you have to learn how to use a wrench, size or features don’t matter much at this point (unless you already know that you want to become an expert with one particular wrench).

    I think starting a new project is way easier than contributing to an existing one.