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If there is a thing called "computer science", it begins with Godel, moves through Turing, von Neumann and on to the present day. This isn't some ivory-tower thing. This is the key reason for the existence of the discipline. It's not to produce learned papers per se; it is to educate people on this bizarre set of problems.

If bootcamps serve to get somebody a job in "app development", then by all means. Just don't confuse that with a background in the discipline.

And this really amuses me - in the same article we have "There isn’t a single course in iPhone or Android development" along with "Computer science curriculums place emphasis on proofs of correctness" and then - " yet universities continue to treat CS firstly as a theoretical natural science rather than an engineering discipline."

Oh, they sure do. To the extent that software is engineering, that breaks down into work product hygiene - standards, configuration management, reviews - at least a passing acquaintance with proofs of correctness and its application, and how the classic toolchains work.

I would have no trouble at all with people getting certs in groups of skills like mobile apps, Visual Basic plus database - and indeed, those exist. It's called community college and I'm sure it's fine for this. that hiring managers miss these details is somewhat tragic.

This article smacks of short-term thinking. We already see people in DSP disciplines who think Matlab is the same thing as being able to derive the equations of the transforms on paper. It is not.