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Weird reason to promote something in CS courses.

CS programs aren't to let you make some easy money in the next few years. CS programs are to provide an thorough and high level of computing, from which writing code is just a small part. Having a CS degree much more than learning a language and framework.

If one's goal is just to earn some money in the next few years, he would be better served by taking an Udemy course.

University didn't teach me how to code, I did that myself before going to university. What it did teach was the why's and how's of computing without which I would be just a code monkey churning code without having a better understanding.

It is the same difference between someone who make an course learning how to repair electrical appliances and electronics and the engineer who designs them.



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