[raganwald]

What I attempted to do with the article was to educate people to the wide disparities between curriculums in CS programs and to subtly encourage picking a school based on its rigour.

To the extent that you read the essay as being anti-college, I failed as a writer. I apologize.

[oiuyhgftrhyjuk]

Trouble is then why would you do a CS degree?

I'm looking for smart and go for scarcity then I ask myself - if you are so smart why did you do CS instead of maths/physics etc?

[baddox]

I did CS because I wanted to learn CS more than math or physics. Of course, there's a decent amount of all three in my CS curriculum. This wasn't necessarily a money-based choice (and I have trouble believing that math or physics graduates make more than CS graduates anyway), it was a choice based on what I enjoyed and wanted to learn more about.