I’m impressed and fascinated by Desai and Rossmann’s effort. You could say that they’ve disrupted computer science departments in the same way that iTunes disrupted the music industry — you only have to pay for the good stuff! (Of course, one can argue that we’ll wind up paying more more subtly when the “deep cuts” of education wind up as collateral damage.) But the bottom line is that they’ve identified a need and produced a system that satisfies it. Maybe after some of the Make School grads reap their fortunes, they’ll drift back to campuses where they can get their thrills from theoretical computer science — or liberal arts.