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Good for you, but that's not how the vast majority of CS courses operate.

Also, coding on paper with no access to devices is both terrible and has next to nothing to do with how CS grads will actually work.

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A CS degree is not a "bootcamp" or any other form of vocational training. Also, there are criteria for the school to maintain accreditations, you know.

Then why are people paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for them?

To get an actual education instead of merely imitating whatever is trending on hacker news.

I think most just want a decent job to pay bills after. The rest love the field, the theory of cs, and may or may not continue into academics or research.

It is a computer science degree, with an emphasis on the science part, and a note that CS is not the same as coding computers. It's the science of computing, not a tech bootcamp to get you quickly up to speed in the latest hot language and framework.

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