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From: mil@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Maria I. Lasaga)
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Subject: Re: The programming CULT (WOW!)
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Date: 9 Aug 90 04:07:07 GMT
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The carpenter/architect analogy doesn't work very well, for many reasons
already given.  Here's another:  I don't think many architects could
actually build a house they have designed if a carpenter weren't available.
The same is not true of students with degrees in CS.  They can still
program, no?!

Would a better analogy be an untrained artist versus one taught by
an established academy of the arts?

I find this discussion about the usefulness of a graduate degree
very interesting.  Out of curiousity, what is the average starting salary
of a programmer with a CS degree these days?  What about that of
a programmer without a degree?  Do companies make a distinction?

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University of Virginia
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