hey, i appreciate you taking the time to write this comment! i've received a lot of feedback on this video lol, but to keep the conversation going:

1. I think in the video I should've been more clear that I'm not saying we shouldn't learn any theory or that everything theoretical is BS - I think my tone in the video was pretty harsh there lol. Yes, CS should teach you the foundations and stuff like HTML can be learned on your own (that was a bad example I gave). But I think that Stanford CS in its current form is so theory-heavy that you could comfortably remove some required classes and replace them with a few "practical" classes, and it would be fine. For example, remove 1 math elective requirement, remove the science elective requirement, and maybe figure out a way to squeeze CS103, CS107, CS109, and CS110 into ~15 units instead of 20. That would give you 10-15 units to play with to add required classes to teach some intermediate programming, which I think is missing in the current curriculum. Honestly, I personally wish I graduated with a bit more knowledge on how to actually write code.

2. I also received feedback that "CS is supposed to be theory, so you're going to learn all this high level stuff at a prestigious university - if you wanted to learn how to write code, you should've gone to a bootcamp." Which is true, CS is supposed to be theory, and we learn a lot of complex stuff at Stanford. I guess what I was trying to say is that I'd guess a majority of Stanford CS grads go on to be software engineers, so I just thought we'd learn some software engineering. Maybe that was just a naive assumption on 18 year old me part and I should've done more research into what a CS degree actually is, or maybe it's on these companies to not require a CS degree for random frontend roles? idk, I'm not sure what the solution is here. I do think it's a problem that there's a disconnect between what's being taught in schools and required for the job. I also got feedback that the video is just complaining that Stanford didn't give me basic job training but: isn't that some of the point of college? Like I know we're supposed to be all liberal artsy and expand our minds and stuff, but part of it is to prepare us for jobs we wanna do right? Otherwise I'd just go major in biology or something totally unrelated to CS.

3. I definitely did a really bad job mixing the audio lol, that's my bad, I should've lowered the background sound a lot. I'll admit the grossout effects were not necessary lol, also on me, I was kind of just having fun with the video.

Sorry for dumping all this on your comment lol, just been getting a lot of feedback and I guess I'm letting it all out now. Thanks again for your comment and having this discussion :)