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Computer Science is to programming as Theoretical Physics is to Homebuilding. A lot of physics professors probably wouldn't know which end of a hammer to grip to drive a screw.

The problem here is probably students expecting to attend a trade school and discovering they're in academia instead.




> which end of a hammer to grip to drive a screw

I must confess that I don't know which end of a hammer to grip to drive a screw.




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