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We appear to have a 20-ish-year boom/bust cycle in CS enrollment; Eric Roberts (and some others in CS education) have been working on this for a while; there's
by okaram 8y ago
We appear to have a 20-ish-year boom/bust cycle in CS enrollment; Eric Roberts (and some others in CS education) have been working on this for a while; there's a ton of resources at https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/ResourcesForTheCSCapacityCrisis/ https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/ResourcesForTheCSCap...
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoI think this is a little different. American schools now court more foreign students than ever to populate these programs. Domestic students that would otherwise go into EE or CE have fewer job prospects compared to 20 years ago and are better off in CS too. Previous booms were more faddish. Now it's basic economics.