Software Development is not Computer Science

Criticism of my proposal for a software developer degree came a few hours later than I anticipated. I’m sure there will be more people who scoff at the idea of a regimen where students learn what they really need to know, but I will go ahead and address the first negative response. A commenter, only known as Steve, writes: This would be a very poor software development degree. The graduate would be able to write a program, but write a program to do what? With no formal foundation in mathematics and alg...