[ale] Off topic

[Heaton, William P]

At GSU they recommend the following path for a CS degree:
Principles of Comp Programming I (Java)
" 2 (C++)
Windowing Systems Programming
System-Level Programming (C/UNIX)
Data Structures (C++)
Computer organization and programming
Computer Networks
Operating Systems
Parallel Programming
Database Systems
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Software Engineering
Programming Language concepts
Computer Architecture
Graphics Algorithms
Automata
Human-Computer Interaction
&
Scientific Visualization

Of course, there are a lot more options.

Phil Heaton - Boeing Metrology
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(404)726-5769 - Pager
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> From: 	Matt Shade[SMTP:mshade at mindspring.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, July 17, 1998 10:34 AM
> To: 	ALE List
> Subject: 	[ale] Off topic
> 
> rant
> It's been more than a couple years since I've been in college, so I'd
> like to ask anyone with recent or current college experience - what the
> hell are they teaching for C.S. degrees these days? Is it computer
> science or computer applications?
> 
> I just got into a discussion with someone last night who has recently
> gotten a C.S. degree, but had no idea what I was talking about when I
> was asking for a "full path" to a program. This was on a unix system and
> on an operating system this person SUPPORTS!
> 
> Another person I've talked to who has gotten a degree in the last year
> also has no grasp of basic OS concepts. He says he was taught NT and NT
> apps in school. What the hell happened to computer architecture and
> Assembler and C and algorithms as fundamental building blocks? Have they
> been replaced with Windows 101 and Word Fundamentals? This is scary to
> me.
> /rant
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