{"id":682,"date":"2011-05-24T21:36:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2011-05-24T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:36:34","slug":"jumping-from-engineering-to-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/jumping-from-engineering-to-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping from Engineering to English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/US\/05\/17\/education.stem.graduation\/index.html\">Prospective engineering students switching majors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting article and it does point out some of the reasons students bail out on Computer Science and Engineering.\u00a0 It seems that CS and Engineering courses are not taught to the degree of other courses.\u00a0 There are teachers in the classes, but the approach to teaching CS and Engineering courses is often less about teaching and explaining topics \/ concepts and more akin to throwing kids to the wolves to see which ones make it.\u00a0 One can hope this trend will not continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospective engineering students switching majors This is an interesting article and it does point out some of the reasons students bail out on Computer Science and Engineering.\u00a0 It seems that CS and Engineering courses are not taught to the degree of other courses.\u00a0 There are teachers in the classes, but the approach to teaching CS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,7,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}