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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
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Subject: Re: CS education
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Date: 22 Nov 89 16:29:52 GMT
References: <16109@duke.cs.duke.edu> <7147@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1989Nov21.172751.3078@world.std.com>
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In article <1989Nov21.172751.3078@world.std.com> jim frost writes:

>Operating systems courses are good because they deal with solving
>real-life problems, LOTS of them.  

Implementation problems.

Engineering is about setting problems, not solving them.  Still no sale.  An
good instructor might choose to use OS as a vehicle of teaching software
engineering, but using it as the sole example of an engineering problem
would be wasteful and inefficient.  Besides, it lacks a wide systems
perspective.

Rich
-- 
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers,
you know something about it.
Lord Kelvin						      rsd@sei.cmu.edu
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