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qsorttoday at 7:13 AM1 replyview on HN

I have a degree in CS and I got a lot from it, so I'm absolutely not going to bad mouth CS, but I have the feeling that it's possible to just get a piece of paper having learned little to nothing in a way that couldn't happen with Math or Physics.

Obviously lots of great people have CS backgrounds, but it also feels like "how did this idiot get a degree" happens far more frequently for CS than Math. It's not like everyone coming out of a Math degree is automatically a genius, but they set the bar higher and as a result math classes "feel" better.


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mettamagetoday at 7:22 AM

Psychology and business administration is even worse.

I studied CS, psychology and business administration (I dropped out of BA, it was useless info)