[sotojuan]

> No, we need to stop telling people who want a career in web development to get a degree in Computer Science.

Also agree, but we tell people to do it because employers ask for it. I guess it's a cycle, but someone's gotta stop it one day.

[dagw]

I think that the Universities could and should be ones to solve this problem. They first of all need to start offering 2 year largely vocation degrees for people who just want to learn the basics of getting a programming job and in addition offer 4 year Software Design/Development/Engineering degrees in addition to Computer Science degrees and really differentiate between the two. Make it clear to the students (and by extension employers) that if you go for a software degree you'll mainly learn X but not so much Y and if you go for a CS degree you'll mainly learn Y but not so much X. Most people currently getting CS degrees should probably be getting a Software Design/Development/Engineering degree.