Most important and useful CS courses?

GLOBALTRAVELER
Fri, 17 May 2013 11:20:15 +0000

I think a lot of the rants against software engineering course are from people who took a course many years ago that they didn’t find helpful. My son took an SWE course this year at WPI and said it was an excellent course.



My rant against software engineering (being a SW Engineer myself) is offering whole degrees and graduate certificates in the area. One course is great and it’s all that is needed at the undergrad or even graduate level. Each employer has their own flavor of the software engineering process so one only needs to know the basics and one “general” course is all that is needed.

Now these universities charging money for whole 30-credit M.S./M.Eng degrees or even B.S. degrees?..I think one is better to take a CS degree (or Math/CS in my case) and take one SWE course.