{"id":220,"date":"2010-11-24T10:21:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T15:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2014-12-05T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:40:05","slug":"the-value-of-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2010\/11\/24\/the-value-of-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"The value of CS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Carey has a nice <a href='http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Decoding-the-Value-of-Computer\/125266\/?sid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en'>article in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>, on &#8216;Decoding the Value of Computer Science.&#8217;  He does a good job of describing some of the broad benefits a CS education provides, including things like clarity of thought and expression, an attention to detail, and an ability to study complex systems.  If you are a young person considering studying CS, please don&#8217;t listen to those messages that your peers or the media may give you &#8212; you know what I mean: &#8216;being a slacker is cool&#8217;, &#8216;don&#8217;t get a job where you have to think hard&#8217;, &#8216;style is more important than substance.&#8217;  In fact, thinking hard and figuring out how stuff works and creating things that improve people&#8217;s lives is great fun!  And you can get paid to do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Carey has a nice article in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, on &#8216;Decoding the Value of Computer Science.&#8217; He does a good job of describing some of the broad benefits a CS education provides, including things like clarity of thought and expression, an attention to detail, and an ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}