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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:03:28AM -0400, Matthew Valites wrote: David Kramer wrote: > >- Schools today, even technical ones, teach programming languages, but > >not the arts of software design or development. > 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. I'm glad you had a different experience. At SUNY Binghamton, as of 1996, David's statement was largely more true than yours. -dsr-
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