>>12489857> some CS curriculums are basically discrete math degrees.Not enough of them, but also there's a lot of use of continuous / non discrete mathematics in CS. I do agree that standards are getting better slowly, but right now CS degrees can be a toss up between McUniversity and actual amazing STEM education
>engineers want to be associated with CSthis is actually true, and it's really funny. For the last decade and a half, engineering students kept trying to trivialize CS and everything related to CS as being irrelevant. Now that just *some* of actual academic CS has entered industry and research and has revolutionized many areas related and unrelated to computing (sketching algorithms, topology and data analysis, learning and RKHS, complexity theory and condensed matter (Ising and other statistical mechanics questions have nontrivlal relationships NP-completeness and semidefinite programs). engineers want to jump on the "oh, uh well I can totally do all of that too guys. Lemme pick up python"
Everyone and their mother wants in on the CS bucks but doesn't want to admit that CS has rapidly pulled itself up by the bootstraps. In the 70s, we were studying how to cleverly apply balls in bins, In the 2010s and above, many ideas from traditional mathematics, from analysis to infinite games, are a part of core CS research. Though, I wish more undergrads learned about the Borel Determinacy Theorem - right now such logic is still CS research / grad material.
