I’m not too sure about about other Masters program but I went to Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. There was only couple classes that was just theories but 8 others were hands-on programming courses.
http://ep.jhu.edu/graduate-programs/computer-science/computer-science-program-requirements
Enterprise and Web Computing
605.481 Principles of Enterprise Web Development
605.484 Agile Development with Ruby on Rails
605.486 Mobile Application Development for the Android Platform
605.782 Web Application Development with Java
605.784 Enterprise Computing with Java
605.785 Web Services with SOAP and REST: Frameworks, Processes, and Applications
605.786 Enterprise System Design and Implementation
605.787 Rich Internet Applications with Ajax
605.788 Big Data Processing Using Hadoop
635.483 E-Business: Models, Architecture, Technologies, and Infrastructure
Scroll down to see the courses. Of course, there are plenty of theory classes but there’s plenty of practical courses like “Hadoop”
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>Focused on Enterprise Computing
… I didn’t know you could do that. I’ve only heard of things that were more computational or theoretical. I already do that, I may actually look into those programs.
Do you think it’s actually benefited you other than looking good on a resume?
>I graduated more then 10 years ago
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>I’m not sure about now but 90% of the courses I took from college have never been used.
If you began programming any time up until about the early 2000s, you were forced to learn low level concepts to function. Like how memory works, binary, hex, maybe even assembler depending on how long ago. Today, you could be a Python, Javascript, or even a Java guru and not need to know any of these things. Each one may be trivial to learn by themselves, but all these things are taught during CS. You may not use them every day but at least when you do need them they are there. Not to mention things like Algorithm Analysis, that I may not directly use very often but the things I learned from that class are in the back of my mind with almost every line of code I write. These are the sort of things you get from a CS Graduate.
I agree that not every CS Graduate is good or even cares about what they do, some just go to get a job to sit in for the rest of their lives. But that’s something the person doing the hiring should figure out. I’ve met plenty of people who have made it fairly high without degrees that don’t belong in their positions either, or even in the field for that matter. lol
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