Ask HN: Do CS degrees set you up to be disappointed with most programming jobs?
CS professors are constantly putting down programming in their teaching. So how can this end well?
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CS is just math until you write working code, don’t forget it. I don’t know those profs, get the best grade you can from them and leave their sorry selves behind.
Unfortunately, most CS degrees are toolmaker theory for supporting areas of scientific endevors. For the "non-university" world, don't care unless it's clear what area of CS want to specialized in.
Typically don't control/define most of the enviroment the programming is being done in/with. Until one specializes/demos experience in a specific area, "programming" sucks because "general purpose" experience is real-world entry level.
A general CS degree hopefully will allow for figuring out what to specialized/get experience in. Although, hopefully don't pick something that's a grinding profession. aka game programmers.