Right now we are pushing for programmers. Not electrical engineers, not physicists. We aren't pushing people to go into materials tech or telecom. Not even industrial design. All of those things are jam-packed into the consumer devices that are now surrounding us and fueling this craze... but programmer is the one that has been picked. Programmer is the one that the proponents of this movement think can be picked up without years of intensive schooling.
Coding is the obtainable saviour vocation for the unwashed masses.
Sys admins are to programmers what auto mechanics are to mechanical engineers. We are pushing people into engineering as much as CSE. At my old school, the CS program is so over subscribed that this happens naturally.
Industrial design is incredibly oversubscribed and always has been (the sexiest design major), if you want to do design these days, interaction is a better bet.
Of course, a programmer is just as likely to have a physics, math, engineering, or even music degree as they are a computer science one.
The one that seems easily obtainable.
Right now we are pushing for programmers. Not electrical engineers, not physicists. We aren't pushing people to go into materials tech or telecom. Not even industrial design. All of those things are jam-packed into the consumer devices that are now surrounding us and fueling this craze... but programmer is the one that has been picked. Programmer is the one that the proponents of this movement think can be picked up without years of intensive schooling.
Coding is the obtainable saviour vocation for the unwashed masses.