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CS should be more integrated with other departments

it is almost disappointing that we still have not learned this everywhere. this is not new. already when i studied a few decades ago at my university the computer science major allowed you to pick any other field as a minor.

there was no active integration of the fields, but the argumentation was that computer science was applicable everywhere, so any combination would make sense. most other majors did not give you that kind of freedom, and i have not heard from any other universities offering this choice to their CS majors, but i did hear from several that required math as a minor to go along with CS.

i don't know if the reverse was true though. i doubt it. physics definitely required math as a minor and didn't allow a choice. and i doubt many other departments allowed students to choose CS as a minor. it would be a great idea though.

i also agree with you that every student should learn programming, but for me that makes programming a class that should already be required in highschool, and at least be offered in middle school, if not earlier. just like learning english as a second language is required in pretty much every country that is not english native, and in many offered already in primary school.