[ale] Off topic

[vaidhy at wwdg.com]

> > > Assembler and C and algorithms as fundamental building blocks? Have they
> > > been replaced with Windows 101 and Word Fundamentals? This is scary to
> > > me.
> > 
> > Even here at Ga Tech (which has steadily been rising up the charts towards 
> > being a top ten university in CS), we are seeing this trend. It seems to be the
> > fault of the faculty that are designing the curriculum. The low level assembly
> > and hardware courses are no longer taught in the CS curriculum. The Computer
> > ENgineering department which is part of the Electricla Engineering dept is
> > responsible for that. We also no longer offer hands-on networking labs. 
> 
> That's such a shame, too.  I talked to someone who is a currently enrolled
> freshman at tech about the new intro classes.  They're teaching HTML
> as a part of the CS curriculum?  But then again a lot of my friends
> who are also recent grads come out not being able to thing in anything
> but OOP models.  Limiting yourself to one mode of thinking is always too
> inhibitive.  Which is why I always want to prove people wrong when they
> say there's only one way to do something.
> 


I planned on joining Gatech for my MS in CS come winter (uh..uh). Now I think I have to seriously reconsider that decision. But probably, I can try ACO at gatech.

Looking forward to your comments....

Vaidhy