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> Millions of CS students... Are there millions of CS students in the world?? I would guess a few hundred thousand, at most.
by brabel 5y ago
> Millions of CS students...
Are there millions of CS students in the world?? I would guess a few hundred thousand, at most.
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- pjmlp 5y agoMight be, I don't have the numbers. > A figure of speech is a deviation from the ordinary use of words in order to increase their effectiveness. Basically, it is a figurative language that may consist of a single word or phrase. It may be a simile, a metaphor or personification to convey the meaning other than the literal meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
- kortex 5y agoProbably. There's 20-30ish million software developers in the world [1]. People work for 30-50 years, suggesting at least a million freshman CS students a year. It's a rapidly growing field. Plus all the lifetime learners. It's not unreasonable to estimate at least 2M CS students worldwide write or work on a compiler each year. Maybe a tad high, but also it's an idiom. https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/number-software-developers-world https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/number-software...
- robertlagrant 5y agoI have no actual opinion here. Just stopping by to point out that not (nearly) all software developers started as CS students.
- kortex 5y agoOf course, I don't mean to imply that all software developers went to school for cs, or went to school at all. Just doing a Fermi estimation.