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There are no two ways around it, there’s a high demand for developers and engineers not only in the Bay Area, but around the country.
This may get me in an a$$load of trouble but I think it needs to be said. Following the announced restructuring of the University of Florida CS program and this classic quote about how Yale shouldn’t be in the business of teaching “trade skills” (meaning, applied software engineering), I’m going to argue that more (not all, but more) academic computer science programs should be shut down or reorganized. Here’s my rationale:
He was a Grade 10 science buff at a summer science camp who heard a fellow teen rave about doing real research for real scientists.
“I thought that was so cool,” marvelled Marshall Zhang, so he went home to Richmond Hill and started emailing biomedical researchers to see if any would take him on.
Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group has identified what he calls a "global achievement gap," which is the leap between what even our best schools are teaching, and the must-have skills of the future: * Critical thinking and problem-solving * Collaboration across networks and leading by influence * Agility and adaptability * Initiative and entrepreneurialism * Effective oral and written communication * Accessing and analyzing information * Curiosity and imagination
Producing computer scientists and engineers to fill the demand from domestic companies should be a national priority, said Jeannette Wing, head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Producing computer scientists and engineers to fill the demand from domestic companies should be a national priority, said Jeannette Wing, head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Comments The move to scrap the current ICT curriculum and replace it with one based on computer science and programming will benefit business because students will develop technical skills at a younger age
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Software engineers skilled in making applications for Google's (GOOG) Android mobile-operating system this week became more sought-after than developers for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, according to online job board Dice.com.
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