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by xxpor 1829 days ago
what? i'd say ~90% of the people I know in software have CS degrees, and the balance have EE, CE, or no degree at all.
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logical_person 1829 days ago
CIS is not computer science.
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gameswithgo 1829 days ago
I understand that there are many people who want to insist that "computer science" is not programming, and that computer science degrees have nothing to do with programming.

At the same time, many of us went to college and got degrees that our university called "computer science" and we learned how to develop software and became software developers. and people continue to do this.

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mden 1829 days ago
That's not relevant to the point they are making. CIS is a different major than CS.
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xxpor 1829 days ago
That's not what that means. It's an official grouping of subjects by the Department of Education.

It'd cover everything under CIP code 11:

https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/cipdetail.aspx?y=55&cipid=...

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