When I did my undergrad in the early 2000s there was some debate about whether computer science should be considered math or engineering and which department the degrees should go through. Now that I've got a couple decades experience I'm pretty confident the answer is humanities.
@driusan
Doesn't sound much different than advisor counseling in the 1970. When I was attempting to get into a Bachelor program for robotics, I was told to go to Mechanical Engineering, and they told me I actually needed to go to Electrical Engineering.
Still, if you're going to go the Humanities route you're still going to need both math and engineering of at least both sorts.
@ClaraListensprechen4@qoto.org I'm not saying the curriculum needs to change and shouldn't include the things it does now but the vast majority of the jobs that someone with a CS degree are going to do after graduation aren't hardcore technical system engineering or cryptography they're weighing the tradeoffs of technical decisions with no clear right answer and trying to get other people to buy in to their decisions. To say nothing of the questions of morality and the effects of those decisions and how they affect society that are more relevant now than they were 20 years ago.
Math and engineering are a vanishing small part of a programmer's job.
