I learnt things by myself using websites like w3schools or geeksforgeeks and by making random useless things and i feel like that's how learning how to code should be like? My college made me forget why I loved coding in the first place, which was my creative freedom in it, making things I love, making things I would use. I don't care about what outcome comes out of it, I just like making things by my own volition.

I hate how coding is taught in academics. I don't know how it is in the US or other countries, but in India it just feels so irritating and boring, I feel like they should make things more hands on and out of the box rather than making us sit in class for 10 hours and give us 2 hour labs which are useless. If you're going to have a CS F111 course at least make sure it's inclusive of all the students you have? I worked my ass off to get into a really 'prestigious' college only to be disappointed by a vast array of professors who absolutely don't give a shit about teaching. They're brilliant researchers don't get me wrong, thousands of papers to their names, hundreds of citations, but when it comes to teaching it feels like they think of us as burdens? I dunno, this entire semester I felt so depressed, expecting more out of this course. I'm not a developer guru, I'm far from it, but I still feel like even if you're teaching the bare basics you can include things for people who already know this stuff? Instead of create an obvious unfair advantage for people like me who've been doing this for way longer than others.

I feel like evaluation should be made on progress rather than how much of the syllabus you can memorise. From this point, to that point, how much progress did you make. I feel like instead of evaluative components being MCQs or fill in the blanks they should be projects, how well did you code this project, how well did you document it. Create your own project! It'll take time to evaluate yes but it's not like you don't have that time, it's a genuine investment to not just make this a read and repeat course.

Thanks for reading my rant