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I did take a computing degree, though it had a rather interesting title – “Manufacturing Computing with Textiles”. The textile content was minimal and a simple political necessity due to takeover by a larger...

Computer Science, Boring?

I find it incredulous that these students think computer science is boring. Far from it, it is one of the most interesting branches of science there is. I would jump at the chance of taking a computer science degree...

No IT Degree

Judging from my son's experience, the reason that people avoid computing is that jobs are scarce. He has a degree in computing, and took a further qualification in network administration, and has not worked in...

Studying IT

I studied Public Relations because when I left school (in the early 90's) I was lead to believe that Computer Science was only for engineers and other propeller heads predominantly centred on developing great big...

Computer Science at Uni?

I did a degree at Edinburgh University in computer science in the 1980s. It was (in hind sight) terrible. One third of the courses were paper and pencil exercises where you went nowhere near a computer. All the...

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