16th
Reading through the comments, I noticed everyone (mostly people above their 30’s I’d guess who studied CS ages ago) is opposed to refreshing things up by getting rid of old boring topics like Automata Theory for instance.
But I noticed that wether to change or not CS is not what people should be thinking of, but promoting Software Engineering instead, here’s my comment on the linked blog post:
Most of the people commenting here seem to people above their 30’s, so here’s the take of a young (21 years old) CS student, computer nerd since I was 7 years old.
Whats wrong here is that people interested in CS nowadays are not really interested in CS, but Software Engineering. CS is only for hardcore nerds who want to get all the history and theory of computers.
If I knew this 3 years ago, I would’ve enrolled on a SE program, not CS, in the end, I’m going to spend the rest of my life in software development, and 80% of CS students probably will do the same, so why bother going through the boring old stuff?
So to put it short, rather than changing CS, let people interested in CS know about SE, which is probably what they’re looking for in the first place.
