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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:03:28AM -0400, Matthew Valites wrote: > > >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. Having a BS in MIS and being in the midst of some sort of CS program at UML, I have taken many programming courses from both MIS and CS departments. While the CS courses did a much better job at teaching principles of software design than the MIS (technically math department) courses, I've yet to experience a course which offered an iota of clue as to how to avoid writing code that overflows a buffer, beyond "don't use scanf()." I think that's pretty sad. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20040804/be3db53b/attachment.sig>
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