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August 5, 2018 07:34 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/y6z63HWIEgg/do-businesses-really-need-to-hire-cs-majors
Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors?
A a new article in CIO magazine argues that when it comes to computer science, "few of us really need much of any of it." Slashdot reader itwbennett offers this summary:At the heart of the matter is the fact that most businesses don't really need programmers to be deep thinkers. For them, it's "just as worthwhile to hire someone from a physics lab who just used Python to massage some data streams from an instrument. They can learn the shallow details just as readily as the CS genius," according to the article. CIO's anonymous author promises an incomplete list of "why we may be better off ignoring CS majors." Some of the highlights: Theory distracts and confuses. "Many computer scientists are mathematicians at heart and the theorem-obsessed mindset permeates the discipline." Academic languages are rarely used. "...the academy breeds snobbery and a love for arcane solutions." Many CS professors are mathematicians, not programmers. "One of the dirty secrets about most computer science departments is that most of the professors can't program computers. Their real job is giving lectures and wrangling grants...." Many required subjects are rarely used. "...it's too bad few of us use many data structures any more." Institutions breed arrogance. "...the very nature of academic degrees are designed to give graduates the ability to argue one's superiority with authority. " Many modern skills are ignored. "If you want to understand Node.js, React, game design or cloud computation, you'll find very little of it in the average curriculum... It's very common for computer science departments to produce deep thinkers who understand some of the fundamental challenges without any shallow knowledge of the details that dominate the average employee's day.""It's not that CS degrees are bad," the article concludes. "It's just that they're not going to speak to the problems that most of us need to solve."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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