> but I'm shocked by how few IE grads can program their way out of a box. It's a shame, really.
These days, you could replace the "IE" in your sentence by any of many, many disciplines and still be correct.
As much as mathematicians will hate to hear this, CS is a new and more tangible/practical way to do maths and should therefore hold a spot in a general education as central as maths has in the last few centuries.
I view mathematics (as in, proving theorems) as one of the professions that's most likely to succumb to automation. We like to think there's some mystical human intuition involved, but that's just us putting things the brain isn't all that good at on a high pedestal.
These days, you could replace the "IE" in your sentence by any of many, many disciplines and still be correct.
As much as mathematicians will hate to hear this, CS is a new and more tangible/practical way to do maths and should therefore hold a spot in a general education as central as maths has in the last few centuries.