| ??? 01/23/08 21:37 Read: times |
#149888 - Dewar not in this universe Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Dewar, or maybe it's NYU in general, seems to be off in his own universe.
From the article: A lot of it is, ‘Let’s make this all more fun.’ You know, ‘Math is not fun, let’s reduce math requirements. Hmm...how many times have I said "computer science is applied math"? Don't know what they do at NYU, but where I earned my degree they never let you forget that in CS classes you were doing math. Same is true at any good university. Algorithms are not fun, let’s get rid of them. One of the most interesting courses I took (required course) was Analysis of Algorithms. Guess what? It's a math course. Ewww – graphic libraries, they’re fun. Let’s have people mess with libraries. And [forget] all this business about ‘command line’ – we’ll have people use nice visual interfaces where they can point and click and do fancy graphic stuff and have fun. So that's what they do at NYU. Why does Dewar assume every other university is just like his obviously inferior school? There are other universities that crank out incompetent software engineers, but let's not paint every place with the same brush. |
