I had a similar experience, having been in college during the first dot-com boom and bust. During the boom years it seemed that everyone was pushing their sons

I had a similar experience, having been in college during the first dot-com boom and bust. During the boom years it seemed that everyone was pushing their sons and daughters into computer science (the department experienced record enrollment for a few short years), yet I would overhear things in the hallway like "Take Prof. Smith for CS305, he doesn't make you code!". In one of my "Intro to Programming" courses, class attendance had dwindled from 80ish to about a dozen students after just a few weeks. However, all 80 showed up to the final review. The questions they were asking made it clear they could not have possibly completed anything past the second assignment. It was a very surreal few years.