Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)

Re:Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) by treeman79 on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:56PM (#23680209)

It was a very common opinion amongst the startup crowd at that time.

Now I would hear stories about MIT, and be impressed, but many schools had very out dated programs.

Breadboards were cool, but I wanted to learn software.

Assembly was neat, made me a better programmer. I’ve Never once used it.

Whole series of interesting but not practical skills. I ended up running school newspaper. That was super useful for getting career launched.

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Re:Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) by honkycat on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:31PM (#23681534)

That's a good perspective actually. I myself have been critical of University computer science programs for not teaching practical skills.

I always forget because I went to DePaul University which focus is on practical software development as opposed to making me take organic chem for no apparent reason.

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