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On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:19:09 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 Feb 2018 22:58:49 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2018-02-21, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2/21/2018 3:08 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>> The Phila Inqr reported that compsci is a hot major.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Across the country, the number of computer science majors at
>>>>> doctoral institutions has more than tripled in the last decade. 
It’s
>>>>> much hotter than it was during the dot-com blitz in the late 1990s,
>>>>> according to the national Computing Research Association. The group
>>>>> refers to the current surge as “Generation CS,” fueled by the
>>>>> pervasiveness of computing across society and the plethora of jobs,
>>>>> some with six-figure salaries and eye-popping signing bonuses.
>>>>> 
>>>>> for full article please see:
>>>>> http://www.philly.com/philly/education/hot-major-on-campus-computer-
science-20180218.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> I hope this reflects a true interest in computers and programming...
>>>> but I fear a generation of half-baked programmers who are *only* in
>>>> this for the money.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> I rememebr it being said that medicine is very popular (in schools)
>>> until the first corpse has to be dissected, and it may be the same for
>>> computers, when the first debugging has to be done.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, "Computer Scientists" these days don't seem to have to
>> do mundane things like writing code.  And they get snarky if anyone
>> suggests that there's anything wrong with this--they're working on the
>> Great Advances, code is for the trade schools, according to them.
>> 
>> 
> Always was like that. A local community college had great success with a
> program that included COBOL, JCL, and CICS. Graduates usually had jobs
> waiting when they got out.

We used to have the sixth week of the first term in CS as a 'project 
week'. Really as a bit of a rest. In theory the students were suppose to 
do *something*. We laid on compulsory stuff for two and a half days and 
then let them have a long weekend.

So, after five weeks of CS, they got a two and a half day intensive 
course on UNIX (command line only) and shell programming.

I am still (somewhere welse) giving that course. It's a bit of a culture 
shock.



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