Re:Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)
by tropo on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @07:03PM
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I got through the hazing ritual, so that works great for me personally. There is far less competition for my job.
For the benefit of society, or the country, or the world, or something like that... the situation is terrible. We're wasting years of human lives on unproductive education. We're excluding capable people from CS careers. We're driving up the cost of software.
If we trimmed out the non-CS stuff, people could do combined BS+MS degrees in the time that we currently spend on BS degrees. The extra CS education would be valuable to the people and to their employers.
CS majors come out of the gate making 100K, can change companies whenever they want, are mission-critical assets wherever they go, and work in ivory towers.