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Squark comments on Open thread, 24-30 March 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Metus 25 March 2014 07:42AM

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Comment author: Squark 26 March 2014 09:01:29PM *  3 points [-]

IMO the real problem is that academia teaches computer science whereas what programmers need to know to be valuable is software engineering. Those seem to be rather different disciplines.

Disclaimer: I didn't study CS myself and this opinion is based on indirect evidence.