Computer Science

[Amanda Lee]

Nope, Unix, Mainframes aren't standard anymore.  The college grads we get
these days at Verizon have no clue what Unix or Mainframes are all about.
Everything is taught on a Windows-based Platform.  I believe JAVA is
taught, probably Visual Basic, Maybe sometimes C Language but usually C
Plus Plus which was actually abandoned in the project I work on for
straight C Language.

I would think in the future though, there will be a change back to at
least teaching Linux since it can run on a less expensive platform.  It's
pretty disgraceful how the content of Computer Sciences education has been
degraded and these kids coming out have an ego bigger than life and think
they can take on the World in a day!

They really struggle when they can't understand how to program and the
quality of code coming out is pretty awful.  There is even this mentality
in the Corporate World which indicates that one can learn everything they
need to on the job and yet they can't figure out why  there are so many
problems with efficiency and the costs resulting from poor efficiency.

Amanda Lee



On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> I'm not going to get involved in the "bookshare wars', but since you were
> chastizing others on this list because most people use WINDOWS and not
> linux, I think its only fair to point out that your computer science
> department is very nonstandard.  Though I am a meteorologist, not a
> computer science person, I know many computer science students in the past
> and the present.  Teaching WINDOWS programming is very nonstandard.  I
> would guess that at least 90 percent of the schools teach programming on a
> UNIX variant of some kind.  In the past thre was a fair amount of people
> using VMS.  However, a lot of beginning C and C++ classes did use
> Turbo/Borland.  WINDOWS programming is much more difficult than UNIX
> programming, so I suppose you are to be congratulated for making it
> through such a tough curriculum.
>
>      Jim Wantz
>
>
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