Re: Y Store now C++

[John Morrison <address@hidden>]

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:04 pm, Trevis Rothwell wrote:
> I once read that while the number of students majoring in computer
> science has increased dramatically (compared to, say, 1980?), the
> number of students who are actually good at it has stayed about
> the same.

This information is old (vintage mid-1997), but...

"In the U.S., the number of computer-science graduates has plummeted
in the past decade or so, from 48,000 graduates in 1984 to an
estimated 26,000 this year."

http://www.businessweek.com/1997/29/b3536106.htm

Maybe the CS faculty on the list can update the info?


-jm

p.s., Hmmm... I may have just betrayed my chauvinist, US-centric view
of the world by giving only US statistics, but, hey, they were easy to
find.

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