It was certainly my backup plan. I never took a CS course, but figured that I could be a programmer if physics and math didn't work out. In fact I went through college with no employment-related objectives.
But to be fair, CS also treats programming as a backup plan. That's why there are coding interviews. How many CS majors actually get "CS jobs," i.e., pursuing the advancement of computer science? Probably the same number of physics majors who get physics research jobs. The rest become programmers.
It was certainly my backup plan. I never took a CS course, but figured that I could be a programmer if physics and math didn't work out. In fact I went through college with no employment-related objectives.
But to be fair, CS also treats programming as a backup plan. That's why there are coding interviews. How many CS majors actually get "CS jobs," i.e., pursuing the advancement of computer science? Probably the same number of physics majors who get physics research jobs. The rest become programmers.