Computer Science Degree – Is it worthy it? Should You Get it?

Re:Computer Science Degree – Is it worthy it? Should You Get... by 908B64B197 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:32PM (#25272960)

> Web dev is big. It deserves to be a major. You could probably have a 4 year specialization on various parts of web development.

A course on web dev in a CS degree sounds right. 4 years that's just... what are you going to do in 4 years?

http, some js, some css, some html, one popular back-end and students should be pretty much comfortable reading the docs and picking up whatever framework-du-jour is trendy right now.

By the time you graduate this 4 year major, the frameworks will have changed twice!

> By the way, I also went to a small midwest school, and its "Computer Science" program was cancelled in favor of more skill-based specializations

That's a very bad signal.

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Re:Computer Science Degree – Is it worthy it? Should You Get... by jvanderbot on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:41PM (#25280574)

I think you are less diplomatically saying the things I was trying to say more diplomatically.

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Re:Computer Science Degree – Is it worthy it? Should You Get... by 908B64B197 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:27PM (#25284139)

No, what I meant was that you might get enough content to fill one university level class on web development. Like a 3 credit class in the US.

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