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Re:University of Florida guts computer science department in... by cantankerous on Monday April 23, 2012 @03:05PM (#3880409)
CS != IT. I think a lot of people have begun to think that it is. The core difference is that the foundations of CS change at about the same pace as a discipline like Formal Logic from Philosophy/Mathematics (that's where CS has a lot of formal roots). IT's core varies a lot more, as it's a younger discipline with less formal and more varied roots than Computer Science. Granted, this is all ideals, there are bad CS programs that teach you the wrong stuff, and there are stellar IT programs that teach you to change with the times, but, ideally speaking the two are quite dissimilar in their foundations.
Re:University of Florida guts computer science department in... by kls on Monday April 23, 2012 @03:09PM (#3880434)
I apologize if it appears that I implied that it was, that was not my intent. My intent was to highlight that their are bad CS and IT programs out there, and that may be what is coloring the perspective of the original poster.
Re:University of Florida guts computer science department in... by cantankerous on Monday April 23, 2012 @03:19PM (#3880483)
Nah, consider it "supporting-commentary" to you. It was more about the original post referring to the shelf-life of programs.