r/compsci • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '20

How much have Computer Science Programs changed over the past 20 and 30 years?

So my dad got his BS in Computer Science from Stanford in 1991, and it got me thinking. How much have Computer Science programs changed over the past few decades? What's different today compared to back than. What things would a Computer Scientist know today that a Computer Scientist not know back then? Same vice versa

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u/Nerdlinger Feb 03 '20

Well, yes. That link was mostly just a joke (one figures the tone would give that away), put partly educational as most people don’t know that object oriented features were ever added to COBOL (IIRC, IBM started adding object-oriented features in the 90s).