US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science 306
itwbennett (1594911) writes "Despite the hot job market and competitive salaries, the share of Computer Science degrees as a percentage of BA degrees has remained essentially unchanged since 1981, according to data from the National Center for Educational Statistics' Digest of Educational Statistics. If history is any indication, it will take a cultural phenomenon to shift the percentage higher: Blogger Phil Johnson point out that there were 'two distinct peaks, one in 1985 (4.4% of U.S. college degrees) and one in 2002 (4.42%). These would represent big increases for the classes entering school in 1981 and 1998 respectively. The former year corresponds to the beginning of computers coming into the home and the release of things like MS-DOS 1.0, all of which may have increased interest in programming. The latter year was during the dot com bubble, which, no doubt, also boosted interest.'"
Re:Computer Science is not IT and at times not cod (Score:5, Funny)
Computer Science is not IT and at some time / schools not even coding, web site work and more.
Upon reading this comment, I suddenly understood why my university required me to take all those painful semesters of writing courses.
Re:I have tried (Score:4, Funny)
So your advice is to suck knob. Go fuck yourself. Fuck you and the jock closet you crawled out of, MBA faggot.
Good job on proving his point.
Re:Not terribly surprising (Score:4, Funny)
I'm disinclined to have to disagree with whoever denies that you aren't incorrect.
There is a more obvious way of writing the above sentence, and it should be employed. Even though none of the words are terribly complicated, the whole cannot be understood at a glance.
The same goes for simpler things like operator precedence rules. Code should be understandable upon scanning it, unless it's black magic, heavily optimized code.