It teaches you basics and fundamentals of low level programming, networking concepts, operating systems, object oriented programming, probably some hardware programming as well. Basically, it is one of the most valuable things you can pursue for formally structured educational pathways in colleges

The increase of CS majors has led to a degrading of courses, as departments focus on tuition money rather than increased standards. I am not sure the current crop of CS BS graduates can outperform GPT4

It's relatively easy to pivot to other jobs from IT, so not a real problem.

Overvalued relative to what?

Relative to other major? Relative to the tuition cost? Relative to how people have been valuing it in the past few years?

@AmmonLam Do you think too many people are doing the Computer Science major?

@ErikJones What is “too many” though?

One can say there are too many CS grads that finding a job is becoming more diffult for CS grads, but at the same time one could argue that CS grads are still among the best major in terms of employability after graduation

Without a clear definition of “overvalue” or “too many” these questions are kind of pointless

@AmmonLam Good point

@ErikJones There is way more software work than capacity to do it. Think of all the companies that could use even basic modern internal tooling, or all the companies that want to create apps (whether they really need one or not). This drives demand for coders and computer science majors.