[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:04:59 -0400 (EDT)
der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

> >> It scares me that you can graduate now with a comp-sci degree,
> >> without ever having done any system programming.
> > You can graduate with a BS in Computer Science from a *reputable*
> > school nowadays, having *never programmed a single line of code*.
> 
> Nothing wrong with that.  Computer science has about as much to do with
> programming as knowing the chemistry of combustion does with building
> an internal combustion engine.

I disagree with that pretty strongly.

Even the most pure science still requires pragmatic examples to be useful.

Even theorists do experiments.

> The real problem - to the extent that there is one - is people
> confusing computer science with programming, designing software
> systems, 

Computer science includes programming and design, or it is incomplete.

> and/or sysadminning.

I agree here: admin is a learned trade, but it does help to have a little bit
of comp-sci background.

-- 
shannon / There is a limit to how stupid people really are, just as there's
-------'  a limit to the amount of hydrogen in the Universe.  There's a lot, 
but there's a limit.  -- Dave C. Barber on a.f.c.