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by Rogelio Gudino

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“The old-fashioned way of computer science is, ‘We’re going to teach you a bunch of stuff that is fundamental and will be long-lasting but we won’t tell you how it’s applied’ ”

That’s still true for many careers, and it needs to be changed so that people have an easier time figuring out what they really should study according to their interests.

And the movie [The Social Network] can’t hurt, he [Ed Lazowska] said, because at least it has transformed the image of a programmer. Computer scientists are finally getting the treatment that doctors got with “Grey’s Anatomy” and reporters with “All the President’s Men.”