Ok, my take on the situation. My degrees are in Experimental Psychology -
the most hard science oriented of the psychology disciplines. As a graduate
student I ended up with about a quarter of my courses in CS or Engineering,
simply because of the degree of crossover in terms of Info Processing and
Human Factors. Also since it was cheaper to have me do the programming than
to pay a programmers, I ended up learning various programming languages. So
is my education any less than a CS degree? I've probably covered far more on
how people interact with complex systems than your typical CS grad. And
program as well.
Rather than any particular degree, IMNSHO, I think that the educational
focus and course work of the person is far more important than the
individual degree. I generally work in those situations where we are
translating logical constructs into something less abstract. Being able to
translate the customer's vague guidelines for a web based app, and create an
effective app as well can be challenging. At times developing user oriented
interfaces etc seems to be almost a foreign language to many new CS
graduates.
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