• David.Poole (7/2/2015)


    I heard an IT director say that what you learn in the 1st year of a CS degree is obsolete by the time you get to the end of the 3rd year! There are job titles that just didn't exist 10 years ago.

    There are degree courses called CS that are like that. Of course they are named CS despite not teaching any science (whether CS or any other science) at all. Science doesn't go out of date that quickly. Training in the latest over-hyped technical fad does, and that's what some universities concentrate on in their so-called CS courses, and also what gives CS degrees a bad reputation. I've said before and I'll say it again now: these imitation CS courses (often taught at otherwise respectable universities) should be scrapped, and preferably made illegal since calling them CS is nothing other than fraud.

    Tom