4 years is a long time, especially these days, it is hard to say what the world will look like in 4 years let alone the CS industry but if he enjoys programming

4 years is a long time, especially these days, it is hard to say what the world will look like in 4 years let alone the CS industry but if he enjoys programming to the extent that it seems like he does to me it absolutely makes sense to study it and build his skills if doing that won’t put you all in massive debt. My personal belief is that not hiring entry level engineers is unsustainable unless we get AGI capable of both outputting and _maintaining_ software better than humans, and if that happens all bets are off anyway.