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by aortega
4846 days ago
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There is a huge anti-CS degree movement, specially (and not suprisingly) among people without CS degrees. The affirmation that almost 100% of grads can't write a trivial program would mean that somehow CS grads are worst at programming than a sample of random people. Which language paradigm the question required? functional? logical? imperative? according the comment, they were phone interviews, meaning you had to dictate the program statements by phone, that's insane. It's impossible to take seriously those numbers. Disclaimer: I have a CS degree, so my opinions are obviously biased :) |
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I used to be one of those people until I broke down and decided to finish my degree.
I think most of the people who speak out against college didn't go (or didn't finish) a STEM degree. I've seen both sides (history, and CS). Most of my previous criticism of college is applicable to history (at my institution at least), but not CS.
There are so many little holes that I've filled in that I didn't even know I had.
>The affirmation that almost 100% of grads can't write a trivial program would mean that somehow CS grads are worst at programming than a sample of random people.
You're right that something is off about that story. There is no way that someone could get through the entire program I'm going through without knowing how to write that for loop.