Computer Science at Uni?
By Reader letters in Reader
Posted in IT Students on July 2, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I did a degree at Edinburgh University in computer science in the 1980s. It was (in hind sight) terrible. One third of the courses were paper and pencil exercises where you went nowhere near a computer. All the university was interested in doing was churning out research students. They weren’t interested in the real world at all. So some courses, the Universities have only themselves to blame.
Having said that, there is another reason why this is not really a problem. Programming in this country is dead. I work for Lloyds TSB which is steadily outsourcing all its programming abroad. So are all the other major employers. We only need a reduced number of IT people because the jobs just aren’t going to be there.
Stephen Brown
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