> every smart kid I know [is] majoring in [compsci] At least, every smart kid in your bubble. You did mention you've been programming for a long time. I know

> every smart kid I know [is] majoring in [compsci] At least, every smart kid in your bubble. You did mention you've been programming for a long time. I know that my friends are mostly gotten through that "career": first programming forums, a nerdy open source game, then through doing IT studies and friends of friends, now through work and hacker spaces. Trends that I see and opinions that I think are generally held, are probably just happening in my bubble. I would expect that your "ever smart kid does this already" is also quite biased.