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Louis

You need a BSc in CS to be a good computer scientist. But not every computer scientist is a good developer. Most good computer scientists I know are more of a mathematician than a dev.

Or as Paul Graham writes in Hackers and Painters: "Computer science is a grab bag of tenuously related areas thrown together by an accident of history, like Yugoslavia."

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HS

Hmm, never heard of that one but good to know how my region became like it is - thrown together by an accident of histroy xD.

Anyways exactly what might be the problem: software development != computer science. Some people mix these two so it might be the reason for confusion.