Interesting interview with Stanford Professor, Mehran Sahami, where in he says “When people see companies like Google and Facebook being founded by relatively young people, they feel empowered and think: I can do that.” Over the last two decades, it can be argued, no area of study has seen larger growth in span and general application than computer science. Today, computer science encompasses everything from bio-statistics to computer animation to start-ups. He further says “You take your average high school, and kids have several years of math classes, they have several years of science classes, several years of English, options for various kinds of vocational training, or history, or economics. But very few schools actually offer real computer science classes.”
