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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CS majors and classes are enot important for the high paying jobs the unwashed masses are clamoring for. It's not a big deal. programming is the easiest skill to learn for free on the Internet. [/quote]

CS is not just programming.[/quote]
Lower level programming has been off shored for many years.   That's not where the money's at.

The big money in the future is going to be AI and ML.[/quote]Those require PhDs, the best background for which is Math. Classes in operating systems, java programming, etc, are far less useful than those in calculus 3 and advanced statistics.

But even within the math courses, some are more useful for building a foundation than ithers. It's good to know partial differentiation and the gradient as that's how gradient descent works, but integration in all of its forms is far less useful (remember, students have a limited number of courses they can take, so parsimony is key). There's a lot of room to improve the curriculum so that a PhD stops being necessary.[/quote]

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