From the article: "Ph.D. students should spend most of their time doing real, publishable research alongside their professors, working as apprentices." Most co

From the article: "Ph.D. students should spend most of their time doing real, publishable research alongside their professors, working as apprentices." Most computer science PhD programs I know of have as a goal to get you to this point. Well, sometimes you end up working alongside your peers instead of seeing your professor. Different places do have different ideas about how early in grad school you finish classes and how many you need, but after that research is your full time job.