> high school guidance counsellors in the 1980's had no clue at all what computer science was. My problem was that the fucking college counselors didn't know e

> high school guidance counsellors in the 1980's had no clue at all what computer science was. My problem was that the fucking college counselors didn't know either. When I signed up, I told the lady I wanted to be a computer programmer, and she said "You'll want computer science, then," and that wasn't true. The CS program was only interested in teaching me how to be a CS professor. A few years in I was scouring the course lists for classes on graphics, web, anything with a GUI even, and there was nothing. It was 100% command line C++, and they didn't even bother teaching us about IDEs and debuggers. Just Telnet, vi, g++. It was like taking a pure math degree to become an architect.