The Value of Studying Computing
There’s a nice article by Kevin Carey in the Chronicle of Higher Education examining the benefits of studying computing. It also bemoans the loss of majors in computing - a trend that we’ve seen throughout most of the last decade, although that seems to be improving over the last couple of years. (Fortunately we haven’t seen that drop-off in majors at W&J; my guess is that its the result of our interdisciplinary curriculum.) I especially liked some of his examples which I though did a good job of relating the activities of computing to other fields. I think I’ll keep it around and perhaps link to it as a resource for students that are considering study in the field.
The comments to the article are - as typical - both helpful and negative. What do you think? Can you see the value in studying computing? If so, why have we been seeing the decline in enrollments across the country?
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