Will the basics of programming be given at the institute?

Question

IT education

perhaps the question is off topic. I study in the 10th grade, I am going to continue my studies at a technical university in St. Petersburg. in the 9th grade I started preparing for exams, but at school, other than Pascal, languages ​​are not taught. I want to know if the institute will study the basics of other languages, does it make sense to become a programmer with the most indirect knowledge? How can you prepare yourself to start studying at a university? thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Institutions are different. Even within the same institute, faculties can be different
. Somewhere they give more, somewhere less.
Just the basics of programming that are given at the institute do not give you the opportunity to get a job as a programmer. DEFINITELY you will need to learn programming additionally.
If you are really interested, go to this particular institute where you are going to enter, and ask 3-4 year students what was there. Well, you can still look on the internet where these students hang out.
Asking on a toaster about what is happening in a particular institute is only possible to get on a former graduate, and that is preferably fresher.

Answer 2

Recently graduated from a technical university in Moscow. What do you mean by basic programming languages? Programming fundamentals such as OOP, algorithms, etc. will be studied. In addition, you don’t have to learn anything (but you need to if you want to become a really good programmer), most of the programs in most institutes in the first year are simple enough to be sorted out from scratch over the weekend.
And it makes sense to go to a university if you want to work in your specialty later. Otherwise, don't go.
If you want to prepare yourself for the institute, then, IMHO, it is better to start with good habits. Eat right, exercise, sleep right, learn to concentrate on solving complex problems (here you can write a simple program for yourself). If there is health, then there will be a clear mind, and this is best for learning.

Answer 3

If you want to study programming and software development, then you do not need a university. Teach yourself - there are a huge number of online courses, tutorials, Google and other things on the network. Unfortunately, the vast majority of universities are not capable of adequate training of programmers and software developers, because the education system is too inert and slow, and in IT everything changes and develops at a tremendous speed. What is relevant today, literally tomorrow may have time to become obsolete. And in universities, the development of the education system and the updating of the knowledge taught takes years and decades. The actual period of basic training for a novice programmer is quite within a few months, and in a university, the training period is on average 5 years. For IT, this is a whole era. We add to 5 years more knowledge that is outdated by 5-15-30 years. (Very real example: an eighty-year-old grandmother teaching from Soviet textbooks. And this is in the capital at the largest university in the country.) And as a result, at the exit from the university we get a person who is completely unprepared for real life in IT. It makes sense to go to a university only for the sake of some fundamental knowledge and a "crust" that is useless for a programmer. So don't expect to be a software developer when you graduate. This can only be done by yourself, on your own. By the way, programmers learn every day - something new is constantly appearing, and the old is changing and you have to adapt to this speed of changing reality. It makes sense to go to a university only for the sake of some fundamental knowledge and a "crust" that is useless for a programmer. So don't expect to be a software developer when you graduate. This can only be done by yourself, on your own. By the way, programmers learn every day - something new is constantly appearing, and the old is changing and you have to adapt to this speed of changing reality. It makes sense to go to a university only for the sake of some fundamental knowledge and a "crust" that is useless for a programmer. So don't expect to be a software developer when you graduate. This can only be done by yourself, on your own. By the way, programmers learn every day - something new is constantly appearing, and the old is changing and you have to adapt to this speed of changing reality.
In general, I recommend that you start going through various tutorials on the programming languages ​​\u200b\u200bof you are interested in, learn the architecture and all the mechanisms of the PC and processor, down to the level of transistors, as well as the mechanisms of the programming languages ​​themselves - this will greatly facilitate the understanding of what is happening there and how it can be used. The main thing is to invent or find a small task for yourself and complete it. Real experience is very helpful. And of course English - without it, unfortunately, nowhere. At least technical at the level of reading the documentation. But just a theory - it in itself will not give anything at all, except for vague memories of something there.