Comment by moritzruth
11 hours ago
Yes, I do too, but the point they were trying to make is that "learning how to write code" is not the point of CS education, but only a side effect.
11 hours ago
Yes, I do too, but the point they were trying to make is that "learning how to write code" is not the point of CS education, but only a side effect.
A huge portion of the students in CS do intend the study precisely for writing code and the CS itself is more of a side effect.
Which is a pretty big failure of somewhere in the education pipeline -- don't expect a science program to do what a trade is there for! (to be clear, I'm not trying to say the students are wrong in choosing CS in order to get a good coding job, but somewhere, expectations and reality are misaligned here. Perhaps with companies trying to outsource their training to universities while complaining that the training isn't spot-on for what they need?)