steel-wool panty liners = Java?

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

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-