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Bad software dev. degrees that focus on fancy architecture that brings nothing to the table except overhead.

I don't think I learned basically anything about "fancy architecture" from my undergraduate courses except, ironically, reasoning about coupling and overhead.

I don't remember one solitary lecture on CI/CD, microservices, or even just deployment in general, in Uni. The closest that our comp. sci. classes ever came to touching on anything but the code itself was making us use SVN.

The difference between a software dev degree and a comp. sci degree.

I've never heard of or seen a Software Development bachelors degree?

I've seen Information Systems programs, that are usually CE, after-hours tracks. Neither Harvard, Yale, nor MIT have a software dev one, just Comp. Sci. I'm calling BS (no pun intended) on "software dev degrees" as a thing distinct from CS in any widespread fashion.

https://www.harvard.edu/programs/

https://admissions.yale.edu/majors-and-academic-programs

https://facts.mit.edu/degrees-majors/

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