Maybe I misunderstood the article, but it seems like he was talking mostly at students with advanced degrees (possibly at the Doctoral level): Presumably two a

Maybe I misunderstood the article, but it seems like he was talking mostly at students with advanced degrees (possibly at the Doctoral level): Presumably two assumptions are made: 1) Getting a CS degree at some level is not the only degree that they will get 2) They are frickin' smart. The advantages that the author proposes are as such: 1) You will probably learn how to use a computer to solve problems for you at a level beyond using Matlab or Excel 2) You will have a practical and marketable degree with which you can enter the work force if you decide that academia is not where you want to stay. 3) The abstractions that you learn from studying Computer Science are applicable to many common systems beyond those found in computers. That is my interpretation.