Computer Science Graduates are the Least Employable in the UK

Re:Computer Science Graduates are the Least Employable in th... by Eliezer on Friday November 02, 2012 @05:33PM (#4734869)

I wonder if this is due to graduating people who can't code Fizzbuzz.

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Re:Computer Science Graduates are the Least Employable in th... by tokenadult on Saturday November 03, 2012 @07:33AM (#4736409)

I wonder if this is due to graduating people who can't code Fizzbuzz.

Eliezer, so far not many people on HN have believed my little anecdote about this, but there appear to be graduates with master's degrees in computer science from reasonably decent universities in the United States who can't pass "Write a program using a for loop to print the integers from 1 to 100" as an initial interview screen!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603414

There may be some people with accredited degrees in computer science who are very lacking indeed in the most elementary programming skills.

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Re:Computer Science Graduates are the Least Employable in th... by Aaronneyer on Friday November 02, 2012 @05:54PM (#4734953)

My thoughts exactly. Most schools teach Computer Science, very few schools teach you how to actually program. People have to learn that on their own, and many people don't, and as a result, aren't able to actually program.

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Re:Computer Science Graduates are the Least Employable in th... by kleiba on Friday November 02, 2012 @06:22PM (#4735057)

That's because Computer Science != Programming.

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Re:Computer Science Graduates are the Least Employable in th... by rorrr on Friday November 02, 2012 @08:47PM (#4735501)

I'd say computer science should contain programming. Pure theory is for mathematicians.

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