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While we're wandering down memory lane, here's a good one by Joel Spolsky (remember him?): 'Advice for Computer Science College Students' (2/Jan/2005) https://
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While we're wandering down memory lane, here's a good one by Joel Spolsky (remember him?):
'Advice for Computer Science College Students' (2/Jan/2005)
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/02/advice-for-computer-science-college-students/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/02/advice-for-compute...
The moral of the story is that computer science is not the same as software development. If you’re really really lucky, your school might have a decent software development curriculum, although, they might not, because elite schools think that teaching practical skills is better left to the technical-vocational institutes and the prison rehabilitation programs. You can learn mere programming anywhere. We are Yale University, and we Mold Future World Leaders. You think your $160,000 tuition entititles you to learn about while loops? What do you think this is, some fly-by-night Java seminar at the Airport Marriott? Pshaw.
The trouble is, we don’t really have professional schools in software development, so if you want to be a programmer, you probably majored in Computer Science. Which is a fine subject to major in, but it’s a different subject than software development.