How Computer Science Education Got Practical (Again)

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 29, 2015 @11:28PM from the back-to-the-basics dept.

jfruh writes: In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of young people who had grown up tinkering with PCs hit college and dove into curricula designed around the vague notion that they might want to "do something with computers." Today, computer science education is a lot more practical — though in many ways that's just going back to the discipline's roots. As Christopher Mims put it in the Wall Street Journal, "we've entered an age in which demanding that every programmer has a degree is like asking every bricklayer to have a background in architectural engineering."

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Re:Umm... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-06-29 23:55 · Score: 0, Troll

The connection you're missing is that it is a WSJ writer. Ergo he is eminently qualified to shill for the need to lower the salaries which large companies have to pay for their "interchangeable cogs."