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Re:Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t by nradov on Friday May 05, 2017 @10:21PM (#14278328)
What did you expect? The purpose of a Computer Science education is not to teach programming. Just like a Physics education doesn't teach you how to bolt together steel beams on a bridge.
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Re:Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t by spc476 on Saturday May 06, 2017 @01:00AM (#14278761)
But I wouldn't expect physicists to have disdain for engineers.

Then again, any discipline that has "science" in its name probably isn't.

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Re:Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t by nradov on Saturday May 06, 2017 @01:47AM (#14278897)
Where is the disdain?
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Re:Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t by spc476 on Saturday May 06, 2017 @03:20AM (#14279137)
The professors' contempt of computers? In a computer science department? I mean, it wasn't math I was majoring in ...
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Re:Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code But Can’t by akvadrako on Saturday May 06, 2017 @05:14AM (#14279453)
Originally CS was a branch of math, then the issue was confused because many places taught software engineering in CS departments, and finally we begane to settle on some sane terminology.

What I think they now commonly mean:

* CS is a branch of math

* the art of building software is engineering

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