[nu2ycombinator]

"More often than not, graduates receiving Computer Science degrees are not very good software engineers." Lot of people make these statements, but are there any statistical data to back this up. In opinion CS Degree person is always better bet to invest in long term (even if they wont be productive in webapp development right away) than one who finished 6 month webapp development crash course.

[jthree]

Having a CS degree is going to be a tremendous advantage in a program like this, for sure.

But I'm guessing Bart, like me, has interviewed kids coming out with CS degrees who just can't program. To be honest, it breaks my heart. If you complete a four year program and can't program FizzBuzz in a language of your choice then you have been completely bamboozled. I would not have believed this possible until I saw it myself.