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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nervous parent of a jr CS major. However he will be taking a $65/hr internship next summer working with AI. Even brought him on as a PT currently so they can work on his clearance. That sounds like an investment to me. Hopeful.[/quote]

This DC should be fine.

However, for the long term, DC should be trying to take the more rigorous CS electives (such as Compilers, Embedded systems, Real-time programming, OS Internals / Advanced OS).

DC needs to be comfortable developing software in C using tools like emacs/vi, debugging with gdb and the llvm devugger, creating and using Makefiles, using command-line gcc and llvm, and other UNIX command line tools.  (Linux and BSD are examples of UNIX for this purpose.) Those more difficult / less common skills have been in shortage for decades and will continue to be in shortage for decades in the future.

People who focus on easier CS electives (such as web programming or scripting) and who rely on GUI integrated development environments (example: Eclipse) and can only work on Ms Windows are at higher job risk, both short-term and especially longer-term.

Rigor in college matters as much or more than it did in HS -- at least in STEM. [/quote]

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