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pimlottctoday at 5:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

I don't think that's quite correct; every CS program I've seen involves writing code, quite a lot of it. What they don't teach is /software engineering/: working large codebases, maintaining code, dealing with legacy code, long-term collaboration, working with product managed and designers, etc. That's stuff that you mostly end up having to pickup in the real world outside school.


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chris_money202today at 5:29 PM

Writing code and being formally taught a coding languages syntax and toolchain are quite different.

livinglisttoday at 7:17 PM

I did B.S. in software engineering instead computer science in college, and there were classes that indeed taught the industry software engineering process like you mentioned.