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That's so crazy that I don't even know how to respond to that. How would that part of the university education be useful to a software engineer? And how would i
by brianpgordon 8y ago
That's so crazy that I don't even know how to respond to that. How would that part of the university education be useful to a software engineer? And how would it be even more useful than actual CS classes? Is this the nebulous argument about how humanities education makes you a better-rounded person somehow? You have to be trolling, right? Math and CS education make you a better engineer in much more specific ways than learning military history or 18th century English literature or art history or any of the other geneds I had to take.
- inimino 8y agoAnd this is how we get engineers that think "I don't need to understand economics or history or politics or society or my place in it, I'll just let the people running the company I work for worry about all that so I can focus on important things like optimizing this endpoint". I would prefer a hiring process that filters out that attitude. > humanities education makes you a better-rounded person somehow That's literally what university is for. It sounds like what you wanted was a trade school, and there's nothing wrong with wanting that, but there is still a reason why a university education is valued by some people.