Computer Science Curriculum in College

Ludwig Feuerbach writes "As it's back to school for university students, including Computer Science undergraduates like myself, I look at my course schedule for this semester and I have courses with titles like: Theory of Computation, Numerical Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and History of Economics from Plato to Keynes. The first 4 courses are required in my CS program. I had thought nothing of it until I read an opinion piece by Dan Zambonini, who stresses the type of courses I'm taking are, essentially, useless for getting a job. He lists several CS courses useful for a job. Is he right? I tend to think that an university education should stress scientific topics over vocational ones, but since I'm just planning to get a job after I grad, am I in the right program?"

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In Soviet Russia

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, curriculum COLLEGES YOU!!!

Re:no

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, keep telling that to yourself.

I have created a strict no-CSists-policy in our HR department, seeing what huge social problems these types of people create. Now we just promote our female call-center-agents and train them on the job, which makes for a much better climate.

Fuck all nerds.