
- Aug 16, 2018
Is CS too academic and too impractical?
The Programmer's Odyssey is an 'in the trenches' practical history of working as a computer programmer in the 20th century. You might think that would make it of interest to CS course students but that has not proved to be the case. There are no doubt many reasons for this but one contributory factor could be that CS departments are more interested in preparing their students for careers in academic research than in preparing them for careers as working programmers. Of cours