On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:02:31 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Posit: a degree in electrical engineering is obsolete the day it is
issued. A degree in mechanical engineering, however, is not.

That is exactly the reason why IBM guys laughed at "computer science"
degrees.
One of my customers was Montgomery College and I used to stick my head
in those classes occasionally. It was more like a "computer history"
class, talking about crap, nobody cared about.
These kids were interested in getting a system analyst job and they
were not getting what they needed from the college.
OTOH I had my own "classes" with a few of the smart kids.
My information was fresh off the presses at IBM schools.

I was asked to stop when one of the kids hacked into the operating
system of the college with a little assembler language routine I was
using in a diagnostic program I wrote. (hint:, look at the STIXIT
instruction and the notation about the save file in "Supervisor and
I/O macros"). ;-)