[devnetfx]

Absurdly easy to get a "computer science degree" in India

It wasn't easy at all for me. I spend three years doing graduation in Bachelor of Computer Applications in India (early 2000). The coursework alone was so much that you would have "learn" something. On top of that, I did private diploma from NIIT for "practical" exercises (at that time NIIT and Aptech were quite popular among students)

While I came to Australia for Masters, most of my friends did Master of Computer Applications (three years) in India. Six years of computer studies are bound to give you some knowledge!

[otakucode]

I shouldn't have spoken so generally, and I apologize. My knowledge of the situation is derived from researching the coursework involved in receiving a PhD in Computer Science from Bangalore University. At the time I researched it, it required (American) high school level math and then 6 months of additional courses. I had a professor who had 2 PhDs from this 'school'. In an 'Intro to Object Oriented Programming with C++' course, he taught us the wrong way to use cin to get a number from the user then assigned homework writing a program that accepted two integers and printed out their sum. At the next class, he announced that anyone who wrote the code as he instructed would receive an A despite it not working... and anyone who looked up how to make it actually work would get an F for not listening to him. A group of fellow students and I went straight to the department chair and he was shortly fired. That inspired me to research where he got his 'degrees' from.

[xapata]

> Six years of computer studies are bound to give you some knowledge!

Why? There are plenty of classes that teach nothing, perhaps even teach bad habits.