> they just focused on application over theory. That would be exactly the criterion I had in mind. Colleges and universities should teach computer science, not

> they just focused on application over theory. That would be exactly the criterion I had in mind. Colleges and universities should teach computer science, not coding. Dijkstra was an accomplished computer scientist and never owned a computer; there is a whole academic discipline there which should be taught in its own right. Whereas a coding school should probably lead off with source control and the command line, the university should start with lambda calculus. It's not that these things can't be just as useful, it's that they are distinct topics and neither should be used as a replacement for the other. (The unfortunate corollary to this is that it takes 6-10 years to become competent as a programmer, and a number of those years must be in the industry. We should really get a guild structure together.)