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/prog/ I have a very important question about my career path. I'm currenty thinking of doing CompSci at universtity (UK) but I heard that it would be a wasted degree as all the programming jobs are being sent to places like india and china where they do it cheaper???

Is this true?

>>39
The points are "for the time being", "gurus are currently limited in supply and time" and "of these armies of less-competent programmers, many WILL improve over time".

>>38
Nice strawman.  Did anyone ever say the outsourced jobs would "start returning"?

Education doesn't magically make people smarter, and the average Indian IQ is in the low to mid 80s.  There are a few groups/castes with much higher average intelligence, and they are able to compete globally.  India's large population means that there are still millions of intelligent Indians and millions who can learn enough to poorly program to get paid for it. 

With massive social problems that show no sign of being solved soon, don't expect average Indian IQ to grow significantly.
And if things get worse, even more intelligent Indians will move elsewhere.

>>38
There's nothing magical about Western people that gives them knowledge that the Indians can't pick up in a decade or two

Yes it is. It's called being white. What's next? The blacks from the ghettos will no doubt take our programming jobs because there's nothing magical about Western people that gives them knowledge that the niggers can't pick up in a decade or two.

>>43
Back to Stormfront, please

>>44
Race traitor detected.

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>>18

It depends on the department. I know here in Cambridge they insisted on Further Maths which I have used quite a bit. Also yes there's no point in getting a Computer Science degree if you're going to end up just programming CRUD web applications or something like that but there are lots of valuable skills taught in a Computer Science degree even if you don't want to go into academia. It turns out that many of the abstractions in modern computer systems are leaky. Therefore it's important to know about how modern computer systems actually work to program efficiently for one. Most departments will have a fairly wide course as well which is good since you don't know what you don't know otherwise which will make things much harder when you come to try and solve an already solved problem. It's entirely possible to see certain part of modern computer systems as magic black boxes eg compilers or operating systems but if you don't know how they work then if they break you might not understand why and you'll be a lot more vulnerable to people spewing bullshit. Also it's an excellent opportunity for networking and potentially starting up. Posters to this board are trying to impress you by pretending to be jaded/cynical. Don't buy it. Knowledge is good. If you have more knowledge about computer systems then you will be able to pursue higher end programming jobs. (It is of course possible to pursue /fairly/ high end programming jobs without having a degree by having a career.)

As far as "bullshit degree" goes, it's not as prestigious as maths or physics, sure. (But doing things purely for prestige is kind of silly. Too many have ended up with a 3rd in maths for chasing prestige.) It's not as coherent either. There's no real base upon which computer science is built. It is neither solely a natural science a branch of mathematicians or a branch of engineering. Rather it is all of them. As such, it may seem at times to have a bit of a personality crisis. Personally I kind of like this.

>>40

*Yours* aren't maybe.

>>47
Bravo, my good sir! Bravo!

>>46
Fuck off.

>>50
/polecat kebabs/

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