In CS, it's because it came out of math departments in many cases and often didn't even really include a lot of programming because there really wasn't much to program.

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Uehreka 4 days ago | parent [-]

Right but a looot of the criticism online is based on assumptions (either personal or inherited from other commenters) that haven’t been updated since 2006.

	▲	ghaff 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, at more elite schools at least, the general assumption is that programming is mostly something you pick up on your own. It's not CS. Some folks will disagree of course but I think that's the reality. I took an MIT Intro to Algorithms/CS MOOC course a few years back out of curiosity and there was a Python book associated with the course but you were mostly on your own with it.