Most important reason being people joining CS because of fashion and not because they like it. In my entire class of 68, only 4 joined CS because they liked it. The rest simply because they didn't want to 'disobey parents'.
The 'don't question it' culture hurts. 20 people got 90+ in OOP in my class. None of them know the difference between a class and an object. Not their fault - I'm not sure the faculty themselves know it. Data Structures in C - 15 people got 90+. Maybe 5 of them know what a pointer is. I am sure the staff doesn't. Maybe my sampling is biased, but I don't see 99% of my classmates becoming programmers. Yet they will end up at some services company (only reappy knows why) and go on to produce those spectacular posts. Happens all the time here - nobody here can write code, and finding out ingenious ways to cheat is considered great. Maybe I should post a longer rant on my blog. How was this like before the CS Boom? I'm sure some of you would have memories... On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> I brought up the same topic a few months ago I think. Basically if > you > >> >> go to the Ruby forums > >> > > >> > no real programmer goes to forums - they use mailing lists and IRC > >> > >> Forums like say, http://stackoverflow.com/ ? > > > > havent come across that - but I some how do not like forums - something > dozey > > about them > > Stackoverflow is not really a forum, it's more like a community Q&A > website. And yes, StackOverflow has more people who work on Windows > technologies. > > Regards, > BG > > -- > Baishampayan Ghose > b.ghose at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvisense.net
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