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[mvalites at banta-im.com (Matthew Valites)]

> This is reflected by two of my biggest software development rants of 
> mine over the past near-decade:
>
> - Schools today, even technical ones, teach programming languages, but 
> not the arts of software design or development.
>
Having just graduated a couple years ago, I find this statement broadly 
ignorant.  I appologize if you recently graduated and had a different 
experience, however, most of my friends at other schools agree in the 
manner in which their courses were taught.  I graduated from a SUNY 
school with a BS in CS, and our curriculm was heavy focused on 
programming theory, rather than languages.  Language specific classes 
were only introductory.  Most classes were taught with psuedo-code.  You 
don't need specifics to analyze runtimes of certain algorithms, and the 
principals apply across the board.  Same with design patterns.  The 
point, or so we were told, is so that we can graduate and be adaptable 
to any language we're asked to program in.

~Matt