Computing as a career
Microsoft, Amid Dwindling Interest, Talks Up Computing as a Career
In the context of Bill Gates trying to "talk up" CS majors and careers, this article discusses numbers of CS majors falling at universities, including a 33% decrease at MIT in 2 years, and 23% decline in other American and Canadian university CS majors in the past year.
Discusses strategies for discussing CS as an interdisciplinary pursuit, and a foundational liberal art rather than just a technology-centric type of "training".
In the context of Bill Gates trying to "talk up" CS majors and careers, this article discusses numbers of CS majors falling at universities, including a 33% decrease at MIT in 2 years, and 23% decline in other American and Canadian university CS majors in the past year.
Discusses strategies for discussing CS as an interdisciplinary pursuit, and a foundational liberal art rather than just a technology-centric type of "training".
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