I think you are quite right in pointing out that CS is a Science. People seem to think that the only point of studying CS is to become a software engineer, working for a corporation writing programs for Joe Shmoe to use. That's very wrong. You are being trained as a scientist, to be knowledgeable in the use of a particular tool, the computer. Software engineering is one field where these skills are useful. There are many other fields where this knowledge is relevant and sought after, like scientific computing or computational biology. I personally am CS and work for biology professors, developing and coding algorithms for RNA folding and phylogenetic analysis. In this situation knowing how to write correct as well as time and space effecient code is of utmost importance (thank you, Theory of Computation), not making a pretty UI. I think you can make what you want out of your CS degree. If you want to be a software engineer then take electives that will help you with that. But you can't forget you are first a scientist, and can't expect a CS degree to be a training program for programmers.
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I think you are quite right in pointing out that CS is a Science. People seem to think that the only point of studying CS is to become a software engineer, working for a corporation writing programs for Joe Shmoe to use. That's very wrong. You are being trained as a scientist, to be knowledgeable in the use of a particular tool, the computer. Software engineering is one field where these skills are useful. There are many other fields where this knowledge is relevant and sought after, like scientific computing or computational biology. I personally am CS and work for biology professors, developing and coding algorithms for RNA folding and phylogenetic analysis. In this situation knowing how to write correct as well as time and space effecient code is of utmost importance (thank you, Theory of Computation), not making a pretty UI. I think you can make what you want out of your CS degree. If you want to be a software engineer then take electives that will help you with that. But you can't forget you are first a scientist, and can't expect a CS degree to be a training program for programmers.