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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Theory vs. Practice in CS Education
Message-ID: <10071@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 23:49:41 GMT
References: <1989Nov12.044511.992@world.std.com>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <1989Nov12.044511.992@world.std.com>, by madd@world.std.com (jim frost):
... [ In response to somebody's suggestion that C.S. curricula be
      75% theory and 25% practice. ]
>  
> So what you're telling all those employers is that you want them to
> pay people for a year or so while they learn how to write good code?
> I don't think that'll go over so well.
> 

Are you kidding? Any large employer would be overjoyed to get a C.S.
grad right out of school who could learn to write good code in
only one additional year. Ecstatic. But it just don't happen.

(I can say this in relative safety just now, because at the moment I
don't know anybody working in programming who is a recent grad.
At least not anybody who knows where I live.)