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taskstrike
on July 4, 2012
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Stanford's Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Scie...
CS weeds out the bad programmers so they never graduate. If you can pass Stanford's CS program you are probably pretty smart.
jianxioy
on July 4, 2012
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This is totally untrue.
raygunomical
on July 4, 2012
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Why's that? Do you have any information to back this up? I'd be interested in that.
jianxioy
on July 5, 2012
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Because you're making a fallacious assumption with Computer Science in relation to programming/building webapps, just like many others here. You're assuming just because one is good at CS, he/she must be a good programmer.
apawloski
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Not necessarily
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but more likely to be at least an adequate developer
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