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Why so few computer science majors?
- bediger 16y agoThe author has a good point in "Many high schools don't know how to teach CS", but that seems a truism based on what we read in "The Camel Has Two Humps" (http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf). The author totally misses the point with respect to the value that society (and potential employers) place on computer science. It's like any other form of engineering - you probably can't have a career in it, due to hire-and-fire project staffing, and the offshoring of every possible job that can be sent to some place without minimum wage, and a health care system.
- david_shaw 16y agoIt's funny that you submit this now -- I just saw an HN story that CS enrollment is up 10% this year[1] and a front page HN article about how Stanford has so many new CS students that it's overwhelmed[2]. 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443062 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443062 2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2442274 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2442274