“Is that up to date? Regardless, I’d be interested in that source out of pure curiosity.”
Same here.
I never understood the statistics.
At least in just a few colleges I know
(Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Columbia, UW-Madison, UIUC) <= not a good representatives of colleges in US …
those undergraduates and graduates each year alone make up like a thousand students…
I can’t understand how when 5 schools make like a thousand, the rest 1500+ universities in the States only make like 19,000. <and this is when I exclude students like CE, Applied Math and the like majors in the 5 schools alone)
“The US has over a million programming jobs, "
Most people don’t want the lower level IT jobs. Yes, there are many IT jobs. But when you chop off the lower end and only loop at the more lucrative programming jobs, … there is a crap ton of competition
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" A STEM degree (excepting biology) along with three or four programming classes is all that’s really needed to break into the field"
Last time I checked, many of those companies on career fair indirectly told me, “nowadays with more CS majors graduating than ever, we are slowly getting more picky and pretty much getting a CS degree is more of a requirement IF you want to be a software developer” <which i=“” believe=“” “software=”" developer"=“” is=“” the=“” title=“” that=“” many=“” want.=“” not=“” really=“” low=“” end=“” level=“” which=“” can=“” more=“” easily=“” get=“” outsourced=“”>
And I’m sure this is slowly getting to be more of the trend recently.
I remember in just the UW-Madison intro CS class alone (btw, I no longer attend this school), there were almost 600 students in Intro Java and like 250 students in Intro Python. -though many do drop out after the first semester, a huge chunk still stay (like 1/4th of them)-
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btw, in CS classes, for some reason, I feel like there are like 8 asians per every 10 students.
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That said, if all you care about is getting a job right after college, CS degrees does do very well in that respect. I seen friends get like 6 offers. So ehh… all a perspective
btw, CS is not programming. A good CS program usually teaches programming for like 2 semesters and the rest of your years are … theories, and classes outside your major (which supposedly helps you in the future but those classes come directly from your tuition -.