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That depends on who you are hiring. If you're hiring Computer Science graduates than "getting shit done" is not a priority at all (at least in the meaning you imply). Computer Science graduates gets the discipline to be scientists not to be code ninjas or rockstars and it should stay that way.

On the other hand if you're meaning people with Computer/Software Engineering degrees then you're right.



Well, if Computer Science graduates are applying for Computer Programming positions, then I expect them to be able to ship software. I don't go around knocking doors asking for them. They come to me. By the way, people who ship code are not code ninjas or rockstars. They are called professionals.


In most colleges is there any significant difference between comp sci and soft eng degrees at the same institution?

At my university the curriculum was identical for both degrees, you basically got to pick what it said on your cert at the end.




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