Who Killed the Software Engineer? (Hint: It Happened in College)

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/11067_3722876_1

http://picandocodigo.net/index.php/2008/01/22/seguimiento-de-%c2%bfdonde-estan-los-ingenieros-del-manana/

A conversation with Robert Dewar is enough to make you wonder about the future of the American software engineer. Dewar, a professor emeritus of computer science at New York University, believes that U.S. colleges are turning out programmers who are – there’s no nice way to say this – essentially incompetent.

To support his claim, Dewar penned a scathing broadside decrying today’s college-level computer science training. (The article was co-authored by Edmond Schonberg, also a CS professor emeritus at NYU.) Entitled Computer Science Education: Where are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?, the widely read article has prompted heated discussion throughout the tech industry ............