computer science
5 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2022 by Crystal Widjaja · across every show →
Everything said about computer science, oldest first
Jul 31, 2022 negative
Jul 31, 2022 positive
Widjaja: Pre-college CS classes equalize female college graduation rates
“We've seen studies at Carnegie Mellon that actually would create introductory computer science classes before the college class starts. And for the women who did join those classes, they actually graduated at Similar rates as their bail counterparts.”
May 4, 2025 positive
Wu: Aspiring engineers should absolutely still learn to code
“And first of all, the question of, you know, whether you should still learn the code, my answer would be absolutely yes. I think to a large extent, you know, computer science, when you take computer science classes and when you learn these fundamentals, sure, …”
May 18, 2025 negative
Chennapragada: 'Coding is dead' is fundamentally wrong; abstraction is just shifting
“A lot of folks think about, oh, you know, don't bother studying computer science, or, you know, the coding is dead, and I just fundamentally disagree. If anything, I think You know, we've always had higher and higher layers of abstraction in programming. You k…”
Jul 31, 2025 bullish
Taylor: Foundational computer science will remain essential to constrain AI
“And I think computer science especially at least sort of the foundations of it will continue to be the foundations of how we build software and understanding that when you're interacting, particularly with something that's smarter than you producing code, you …”