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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by zerkten on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:40AM (#35233221)
My CS undergrad in the UK circa 2001 covered the items you mentioned in the first course. The second course was similar to http://www.inf.unibz.it/~artale/DB2/db2-course.htm. With UK degrees there is limited ability for students to pick their own adventure and miss these when they choose a CS degree at a reasonable university.

I personally don't agree with the purist approach that CS degrees should just be maths. There needs to be some minimal application at the very least and different universities will have different maths-CS-engineering boundaries based on how they've evolved.

Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by WalterBright on Monday March 20, 2023 @03:17PM (#35237109)
There is some overlap between programming and CS, sure. But Computer Science is more a branch of mathematics than programming.