The next big thing

I found this interesting article in one of my yahoo groups. The author hoped that the next big thing in software engineering is professionalism. One of the things that struck me was this quote:

One would think that a degree in computer science might mean that the graduate could write code. One would be wrong. Many CS grads wrote little or no code in order to get their degrees. I find this astounding; but nevertheless it is true. The CS degree means very little in terms of programming ability.

I taught two computer science subjects and from my experience the above quote is so true. In one of my class some students asked me to lower the percentage of the programming part, which is open notes/books by the way, of the exam. It was always fifty percent of the exam. The other half is the written exam.

I do not know the reason for their aversion to coding.They took Computer Science and although Computer Science is not all about coding(some part of it is actually Math), you should be at least be a decent programmer.