Ive heard cs programs are basically glorified coding boot camps. Is this true?

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What I have heard is that there is hardly any math taught

Not sure what you are talking about, the math requirements I had to take qualified me for a minor in mathematics

Calculus 1,2,3, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Discrete Math, Statistics - Never seen a program where these were not required

They don't teach that at boot camp

it seems like cs programs are are just coding degrees.

I wish this had been the case, that was all I wanted, but instead half of my courses were bullshit social justice indoctrination and essay writing about how science should contribute to society by embracing woke values.

A degree is bullshit, but it'll get you a far more serious coding job than if you attend a bootcamp. A bootcamp will maybe teach you some front-end web development in one language. It's not a great career choice.

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    That surprises me...that would have to mean no differential equations also.

    The math becomes pretty relevant if you want to get into machine learning, or anything besides web/app development. I guess there is enough demand for these kind of code monkey positions that they aren't requiring this anymore? I agree computer scientists ought to know the basics of math.

    I'd still recommend the degree, if only because you will learn actual programming fundamentals. You want to learn about algorithms, you want to understand assembly language, memory allocation, and how the hardware works, and you want to know how to use more than one language. My sister went the bootcamp route, and she is not even a half decent ruby programmer. She works in tech support now.