> as cheaply In other words, talent costs money. Companies expect the good developers to come out of the woodwork for a 35-40k junior dev position and wonder w

> as cheaply In other words, talent costs money. Companies expect the good developers to come out of the woodwork for a 35-40k junior dev position and wonder why they come up with dregs. But I agree. In the one year I spent at a university I ran into many CS majors. Most were in it for the money. Now these students were only taught in Java as far as I could tell, yet they seemed to have no interest in the language. I'd ask questions about Java web technologies that I'd only heard of (being more of PHP guy) like Struts and what not, drawing blank stares. I'd ask all sorts of things that I'd heard about the language, hoping they'd relate some experiences in regards to what I'd heard, that the code was rigid, verbose, etc. I was especially interested in what they knew about OOP which at the time I was teaching myself. More blank stares. Didn't take much more digging to discover that they were pursuing the degree for the money and nothing more. I thought that it was very sad that I, a History major at the time, had more passion for computer science than most CompSci majors I met.