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31. Computer science is relatively cut and dry.

You can listen to a lecture on history on the internet, but you will not get the benefit of direct interaction with people with ideas other than your professors, and you will not get a real discussion on the internet even if the course has some sort of interaction among those participating. It is not the same as sitting in a classroom and being called upon to participate with real people in real time.

Computer science is rather cut and dried.

The history of medieval England is not. Nor is learning a foreign language if you want to learn to speak it. You need real interaction with other students and a teacher who hears your voice.

I would not trust an internet course in chemistry or law or medicine or most other topics. A summer course on the internet in a topic like introduction to psychology or physics maybe, but not any course that is beyond introductory. Computer science might be one of the exceptional areas in which an internet course would do.