1e:[[29022658,{"by":"yarandomguy","descendants":8,"id":29022658,"kids":[29022693,29023172,29026464,29023082,29026456,29027345,29027102,29023307],"score":12,"text":"I'm a final year computer science student, currently wondering if I should do a PhD. Professors told me that it is useful to the career, suits my interest, and it is better done earlier than later.

I'm interested in theories and I often read books and articles about them. However, I'm not sure if I am capable of producing quality research as I have no experience doing that. Also, from others comment on HN, it seems that research today is publish a lot -> optimize for H index -> get tenure and write grant proposals, which may not be something I would enjoy/capable of doing... I consider doing a grad study purely for the pursuit of knowledge, so I wonder if it would be better to just get a developer job instead of doing a grad study...","time":1635398518,"title":"Is Doing a PhD Beneficial?","type":"story"}],[28877028,{"by":"steve_g","descendants":3,"id":28877028,"kids":[28879189,28877334],"score":3,"text":"$1f","time":1634301219,"title":"Ask HN: 0/1 Decision variables vs. bounded integers for selection problem","type":"story"}],[28739197,{"by":"rateofchange","descendants":14,"id":28739197,"kids":[28739788,28753830,28744061,28742216,28745429,28741729,28739671,28739811],"score":6,"text":"$20","time":1633284726,"title":"Ask HN: Any colleges or universities offering credit for CS courses by exam?","type":"story"}],[26426474,{"by":"simplerman","descendants":30,"id":26426474,"kids":[26426983,26435068,26427195,26427027,26427956,26437496,26436569,26431005,26429212,26427039,26428340,26426795,26431504,26427147,26433987,26430359],"score":25,"text":"$21","time":1615483160,"title":"Ask HN: The easiest programming language for teaching programming to young kids?","type":"story"}],[26005157,{"by":"KingKunta","descendants":9,"id":26005157,"kids":[26007559,26006370,26018209,26008658,26005771,26005826],"score":2,"text":"I have a Software Engineering Bachelor's degree, I was lucky enough to get an internship position at a not-so-big-but-well-paying tech company (AI) and over time I have come to love what I do.

4 months later, they seem to like me and are giving me a fulltime offer.

I initially wanted to go to grad school (MSc) but I am not sure if I should anymore, given the pandemic and what's happening in the world right now.

Should I continue to build my skills at this company or go to grad school.

Would not having a Masters/PhD hinder my career growth somewhere? Should I stay for the money?","time":1612292918,"title":"Ask HN: Continue in Industry or Go Back to Academia","type":"story"}],[24540977,{"by":"Witoso","descendants":11,"id":24540977,"kids":[24545142,24542194,24546556,24553656,24541864,24563017,24541348],"score":21,"text":"I'm wondering what resources (books, blogs, talks, etc.) would you recommend for learning how to teach. How should I pass knowledge to my colleagues at work? How to prepare most effective workshops?

I think teaching requires a set of skills like presentation skills or change management but I'm curious if someone described the whole activity with advices how to get better at it.","time":1600676124,"title":"Ask HN: Learning How to Teach","type":"story"}],[24344918,{"by":"throwaway_salsa","descendants":16,"id":24344918,"kids":[24348653,24357698,24350682,24347567,24358907,24346476,24364657,24371926,24348491,24348206],"score":33,"text":"I am a software developer with 5 years of experience. I have worn multiple hats in my jobs, but I mainly work in python where I don't have to deal with CS fundamentals. Recently I started seriously looking into opportunities in FAANG. The biggest problem is, am not from CS background and it doesn't motivate me studing algorithms and data-structure just for job preparation. What I am looking for is some project ideas (any kind of, old/new, smaller/bigger, any stack), where I have to deal with these kind of problems. I am more like learn-by-doing kind. Any advice will be appriciated.

Additionally if there are any such kind of projects online (e.g. github) where you deal with many algos/DS, please mention.

Thanks !","time":1598984184,"title":"Ask HN: Project ideas to learn CS fundamentals","type":"story"}],[24127419,{"by":"hshoebridge","descendants":4,"id":24127419,"kids":[24132323,24148709,24127484,24127920],"score":3,"text":"$22","time":1597191462,"title":"Ask HN: Are there computing education research jobs not at a college?","type":"story"}],[23891838,{"by":"Brazilian-Sigma","descendants":21,"id":23891838,"kids":[23892576,23892131,23892940,23892827,23893674,23903115,23892586,23893847,23893352,23892658,23895912,23892917,23894315,23892887,23893956,23896927],"score":56,"text":"My background:

CS rising junior, indecisive about choosing a sub field.

I want to pursue CS research before I graduate for its own sake and partly to compensate for my lackluster GPA for grad school. But each field seems to have a pet peeve:

1) AI/machine learning: too saturated, fear of an AI winter

2) Networks/security: boring, reading a research paper seems torturous

3) Bioinformatic/quantum computing: may never find their place in real world and die out

Etc.

It continues to amaze me how some people know exactly what they want to do in their freshman year or even earlier. My question is: what motivated you to pursue what you're doing right now and at what stage in your academic career?","time":1595187522,"title":"Ask HN: CS Researchers, why did you choose your subfield and niche?","type":"story"}],[23256655,{"by":"ailef","descendants":5,"id":23256655,"kids":[23262937,23262870,23260420],"score":13,"text":"$23","time":1590055666,"title":"Ask HN: How to transition to teaching SWE?","type":"story"}]]

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