To start - help to get rid of the sentiment that programming is beneath them. A lot of math undergrads won't take CS classes, won't learn to program, bc they t

To start - help to get rid of the sentiment that programming is beneath them. A lot of math undergrads won't take CS classes, won't learn to program, bc they think it is somehow inferior. source: BS/MS in applied math and didnt learn to program until grad school. I know many other math undergrads that had similar views. I now work in c++ all day - writing algorithms for catheter navigation and geometric mapping of the heart (and previously image processing for factory automation, machine learning/data science for predictive maintenance via aircraft sensor data). It's a real problem. You don't even need a full CS minor to be useful in industry. An intro programming class, data structures, 1 or 2 algorithms classes. An OS class if you want to be more thorough. In some students it's an attitude problem, in others it's just unfortunate lack of awareness.