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I'm not sure about the "easy to come up with a core curriculum" part. I've unfortunately interviewed a lot of people that came from colleges, of various types, and were unfortunately not introduced to a lot of core concepts.

I don't think a program should focus too much on the soft skills, but they also seem lacking in technical skills. This seems to depend on the school a lot.

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Sorry - I meant that listing the subjects to cover is easy, not teaching them effectively. But the big question is, sure, listing a curriculum for cs should be pretty easy, but does everyone who works as a programmer need to know the material that ought to be covered by a cs degree? I think it would be nice if every programmer had a solid knowledge of all these subjects (acquired via a degree or just learned independently), but it's probably not realistic. A lof of people don't get cs degrees, and most of those that do, as you suggested, don't actually have a very strong grasp of the subjects they took...

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No, you can be a career coder without being exposed to all of programming. If somebody is happy with that, then fine. Not everybody needs to be everything. But for those that want more, I'm not sure there's a clear path now.