Have seen bunches of students changed their major from ICT/CS to Business or Media, younger or older than me, before or after generative AI releases. The IT college I studied at is a private school so it doesn't require getting high scores from highschool graduation Science-based subject exams like the Math-Physics-Chemistry-Biology combo, as long as their family is financially stable and they can understand English, they can study there.
Not gonna yap about this on any of my personal webs or in any of my future Youtube videos (on DeveloperHANk channel) in >200 words because there are tons of videos and posts about this you can find on any popular social media apps. One of the most common traits in these students are: their parents told them "do what you love, love what you do" and their older siblings don't help them choose a major with practical reasons (saying "who cares?").
One of the other traits is being chronically game addicts, and one of the reasons why they chose this major is "because I like playing games and I want to make games", they've never followed any online tutorials before being the freshmen, not typing a single Python line on any IDEs. Python is easy to learn and it is recommended for very beginners. They don't understand anything because they don't pay attention to the lectures as freshmen.
They also don't ask questions although the lecturers can continue explaining until students like them say they got it. They were busy playing games and exploiting dopamine (it's never enough for them so they can dump their stress onto any lectures or classmates or ICT/CS students at any time). If they say they need help, doesn't mean they want me or someone to teach them, they give me or someone their laptop to write the entire files for them.
Not every university students can always persuade highschool students to apply to those universities by introducing the exisiting majors. Talked to classmate girls in some subjects because the IT industry is male-dominated and our school has very few ICT/CS female students every year. Their reasons are "during highschool I've always wanted to make cool things, I like drawing since I was little, love making creative projects in the future."
Many of those girls have changed the major so fewer female students are graduated with ICT/CS bachelors. If it's anything except "Hello World!" level in studying any programming languages/frameworks/libraries, it's not easy enough and it stopped being fun for those students, they didn't feel motivated to continue so they gave up. They still update their portfolio sites in HTML and CSS, no JS, not programming languages, no coding projects.
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