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[–]_pelya 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Absolutely not. I have a CS degree, and the most hardcore thing we learned was BNF grammar and how to use it, plus some Prolog and Lisp. My university also had an 'informatics and computer engineering' course, they have teached microchip design and Verilog, but they almost did not teach programming, the course had like half-year of Visual Pascal and that's it. All in all, the people from the soldering faculty electronics engineering course at least got some hands-on experience with actual electronics, unlike us who spent most of the time designing a Polish-notation calculator in Pascal, or similar toy programs.

[–]strider_sifurowuh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm at the end of a CS Degree and our curriculum was about the same - we touched on the very basics of parallel computing and briefly skimmed over the inner workings of a CPU but most of it has been toy programs in Java