Re:Don't call yourself a programmer (2011)
by Alex3917 on Saturday February 07, 2015 @04:57PM
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Probably because most schools don't have 4-year software engineering degrees. I don't think I've ever ever heard of a school offering a degree like that.
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Re:Don't call yourself a programmer (2011)
by autokad on Saturday February 07, 2015 @05:12PM
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I think they should. Computer Science should have gone away a long time ago, but with lack of anything else relevant people are forced into it when they want to be software engineers, web developers, database administrators, etc.
I am highly biased though, I think education of this type should be something like 90% hands on 10% theory, as apposed to the opposite of what it is. I think its more important to have set up a website while working with several others using some sort of source control, and then load tested it with a million hits than to be able to write a formal proof on why some algorithm you can look up on wikipedia is NP complete. - if that person wanted to be a web developer
Re:Don't call yourself a programmer (2011)
by hifier on Saturday February 07, 2015 @05:23PM
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Rochester Institute of Tech.
http://www.se.rit.edu/content/curriculum-overview-0