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Very apt. But I'd really like to know why a medical degree means "can perform real medical work" while we're OK with a CS degree meaning "well, she has successfully completed the degree requirements, but hey, actual software development is not part of it".

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Surgeons do different things.

However, CS is close to something else: Economics. People spend 4+ years learning about economics, but don't know shit about how it really works. They found a solution for that: business schools.

CS at a University versus CS at a technical college.

Unless things have changed drastically in the last 20+ years, CS degrees involve plenty of software development. I remember having to build a calculator in Pascal using queues in CS1. We'd have to code all the classic algorithms (Merge sorts, traveling salesman, shortest path, etc).

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