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what is wrong with computer science degree?

What isnt wrong with it?

i dont know

I'm getting a dual degree in CS just because I need something to fool the plebs into thinking my pure math degree is applicable. Also I need a hobby.
I've never seen people as utterly retarded as CS undergrads, grads, and professors. The degree has been a complete joke so far. I just code in my spare time, look up shit as I need it, and then pass the "difficult" tests.
>Wew lads, muh algorithmic complexity is just HS level limits
>OMG OOP I've never heard of such a thing
>Muh artificial intelligence is just glorified search algorithms

oh, incompetent professionals, got it. i imagine the degree focuses on algorithms/pseudo code too, since it goes to the theoritical side of the thing.

The degree is mostly applicable shit that you could learn from youtube. I haven't seen pseudocode for years. Everyone does freak out about algorithms though.

>I've never seen people as utterly retarded as CS undergrads, grads, and professors. The degree has been a complete joke so far. I just code in my spare time, look up shit as I need it, and then pass the "difficult" tests.
When I dropped out of HS after 2 years and entered community college, I had to ask the intro to C prof to let me in the course without taking math-for-dropouts despite testing into Calc 1. I was presented a sob story about having to fail a student who cried, as a warning that CS is "hard". I hadn't done anything but PHP and JS up until that point, and the whole two year curriculum was so unchallenging I ended up feeling incompetent due to feeling like I hadn't even been taught anything. I read the entire textbooks we were assigned 1/3 of until Java where I did almost zero work and still got an A on account of easy midterm and final.

I suspect we're adjusting the curriculum for the lowest common denominator on account of the number of students enrolling because they are told that CS is "the future", despite knowing absolutely jack shit about computers and having no real motivation to learn. It's similar to how we're increasing the number of tests in primary school and judging entire districts only by their pass rate which holds back students who actually understand the material and just increases dropout rate of the students who aren't fucking studying in the first place.

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Finally, here's an user who gets it. I'm at a mid/top tier uni, but every homework assignment gets its deadline extended by a week for 90% credit because enough people complain they couldn't do it in time. Oh and the final exam in my data structures class was made to be worth only extra credit because people thought it would be too hard for them. It's a joke.
I've learned LOTS through various non-uni internships though.

Not every CS degree program sucks like this and not every CS student is some moron. Your claims about low employment rates are utter bs. I had no job experience before my CS degree yet I got an internship at a prop trading firm the summer after my junior year making 8.5k a month. Got offers from another prop trading firm before graduation for about 140k total comp which I declined for another offer of slightly less but better location and top well known company. I work in C and C++ primarily

Have fun making 30k a year stipend doing your PhDs in math or whatever