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<p>As someone who took 2 introductory CS courses and knew/worked with dozens of colleagues who majored in CS…that’s not true…especially when you go beyond the first few intro courses.</p>
<p>In the two intro programming courses for CS majors I took, there were programming language textbooks and manuals for the compilers and operating systems we used. </p>
<p>For classmates who went beyond and became CS majors, their reading loads went up to at least 40-60 pages/week for the intermediate/advanced courses. For those working on honors projects or doing private readings on advanced topics, the reading loads could be much more than that. </p>
<p>One CS major friend at a second-tier institution did at least that much reading…and did much more on his own initiative on top of everything else because he felt the assigned work was inadequate for his career plans. Upon graduation, he was one of only 25% of his class to be immediately hired for a technical job related to his education and is now working for Microsoft while the vast majority of his CS graduating class ended up on the unemployment line for a year or more.</p>