> It was really tough, and impossible to pass if you had not implemented everything yourself and knew things inside out.
... and required an awful lot of resources to grade, unsustainable for modern academia that has been perverted to be mostly a diploma mill.
No front but a "CS degree" is, for 99% of the people that have one, factually useless - people only do it because employers use it as a very efficient filter to weed out everyone who might have an issue with what big corporate demands - cogs in a wheel, not artisans with own opinions. The purpose of academia isn't science and advancing it anymore, it is raking in tuition money on one side and molding people to corporate drone conformity.
... and required an awful lot of resources to grade, unsustainable for modern academia that has been perverted to be mostly a diploma mill.
No front but a "CS degree" is, for 99% of the people that have one, factually useless - people only do it because employers use it as a very efficient filter to weed out everyone who might have an issue with what big corporate demands - cogs in a wheel, not artisans with own opinions. The purpose of academia isn't science and advancing it anymore, it is raking in tuition money on one side and molding people to corporate drone conformity.