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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: value of CS degree
Message-ID: <5016@kestrel.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 17:12:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 17:12:08 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 04:40:00 EST
Organization: Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, CA
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I'm reposting fragments of the net.cse discussion to net.singles,
in order to encourage interested parties to join us there. This
message contains nothing new for net.cse people. 
If you read net.singles, and you're wondering about further
education in CS, you'll want to be in on this.

In article <6282@cca.UUCP>, g-rh@cca.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
> In article <> eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
> >
> >The CS degree is a valuable degree.  It should not be a math degree or
> >a EE degree or any other degree.  [....]
>
> 	Just a few words from someone senior (25 years in software).
>     [........]
> 	There is no doubt that a CS degree is a valuable degree.  Today
> they teach in the schools the things that we had to invent, often on the
> fly.  The complaint in industry is that, all too often, people with CS
> degrees know only the tools and don't know that they are only tools.
> Too many don't understand applications,
> tions, don't know how to learn about applications, and don't want to learn.