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Where have the universities gone?

Where have the universities gone?

Posted Jul 25, 2007 5:38 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Where have the universities gone? by allesfresser
Parent article: Where have the universities gone?

my High School CS teacher had it right,

the first class was an intro to BASIC (on TRS-80's), teaching you enough to be comfortable writing software.

the second class was advance algorithms, and half of the final was "here's a program (about a page and a half), it doesn't work, it has no documentation. figure out what it's supposed to do and fix it"

after that you went to to assembly and other things, starting by flipping switches on an Altair 8000 and moving on from there.

by the time I got to college the classes all seemed do boring, 10 min of useful info for each hour of class (if I was lucky)


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