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> How many CS grads work at companies roughly in the sectors you mention? What a field is or is not about is not determined by what graduates of said field do
by rifung 10y ago
> How many CS grads work at companies roughly in the sectors you mention?
What a field is or is not about is not determined by what graduates of said field do or want to do post graduation.
- metaphorm 10y agoso what determines what a field is, or is not, about if we cannot consider what the practicioners of that field do in their professional lives?
- icebraining 10y agoThey are not practitioners of the field, they're just people who happen to have a degree in that field. One of my coworkers has a degree in chemistry, yet she works in accounting, does that mean that the field of chemistry is defined by accounting? Yes, SW development is closer to CS, but it's still a separate endeavor.
- metaphorm 10y agoif you friend worked in pharmaceuticals development you'd have a better analogy. theory and application BOTH define the field. it's an unfortunate tendency in academia to claim that _only_ the research/theory part is the field.
- rhizome 10y agoI didn't claim an iron law of meaning, I said it's "a little bit true." It was my attempt at making a nuanced, if short, observation.