The History of the CompSci Degree

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @11:30AM from the oldest-school dept.

Esther Schindler writes "Young whippersnappers might imagine that Computer Science degrees — and the term "computer science" — have been around forever. But they were invented, after all, and early programmers couldn't earn a college degree in something that hadn't been created yet. In The Evolution of the Computer Science Degree, Karen Heyman traces the history of the term and the degree, and challenges you on a geek trivia question: Which U.S. college offered the first CS degree? (It's not an obvious answer.)"

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Re:engineer by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-13 12:51 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Agreed. I hire 'educated' people to work on problems while I sit on a pile of money in my boat while fishing. Thanks university! Never went, but it must be fun there so you can be fucked over later in life!