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Article #620894Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:19
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:19
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On 2/22/2018 1:29 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2018-02-22, J Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > That's why I dropped out of CS in 1971, and got a programming job > in the Real World [tm]. Getting those payrolls and receivables out > took a change in mindset which turned out to be quite worthwhile. > Planning and design are important... but I enjoy hammering out the code!!! Part of the attraction of computers (for me and I think for many others) is the idea that the computer will *automatically* do work for you after you get the program right. So I think many programmers originally got "sucked in" by laziness... the idea that the machine will do all the work. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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