[schiang]

There's always 2 sides to this argument. CS grads will say codeschool grads don't know enough CS fundamentals. On the other hand non-CS grads will say CS grads only know CS theory and don't actually know how to build products.

[mexi1010]

So, like many other problems, the solution lies somewhere between two extremes.

[ameen]

CS theory by itself is useless unless backed by knowledge about building stuff, this is where all that theory comes into practice.

[jfarmer]

They're both wrong. It's a false dichotomy. The best programmers run up and down the ladder of abstraction. The magic happens the marriage of the two.