Comment If they are teaching coders, nobody's learning (Score 1) 51
I think this post grossly overestimates your average CS undergrad. I'm a CS minor at the university I attend, and I'm quite certain I could outcode most of my fellows in my CS classes (majors and otherwise) in my sleep. Why? I do my coding labs, rather than copying them, which is, so far as I can tell, the rule. Most of the students in the CS program don't like coding, don't want to code, and don't really know how to code, let alone solve a programming problem. A few decent coders would be a hell of an accomplishment in this school. Why are these people in the CS department then? Simple, they want the money, and plan to be hired as Help Desk staff and NT administrators and other various positions where they never intend to code.