{"id":4749,"date":"2021-04-11T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2021-04-11T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:14:02","slug":"falsehoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/information-technology\/falsehoods\/","title":{"rendered":"CS Graduate Falsehoods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What should be the #1 entry on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netmeister.org\/blog\/cs-falsehoods.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this list<\/a> of CS Graduate Falsehoods is missing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agile is valid Software Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise that list of computer science graduate falsehoods is rather good. No list could be complete, but, other than missing Agile, that list does a good job of identifying computer science graduate falsehoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some recent graduates have actually smelled the tea brewing though. 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