Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!murdoch!astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: CS curriculae (was Re: Distributed Hacking :-) Message-ID: <1990Jan19.163129.16396@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 19 Jan 90 16:31:29 GMT References: <5458@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Sender: news@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Distribution: alt Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 25 Approved: foo@bar.baz.barf In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >In article <5458@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> cygnus@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Marc Cygnus) writes: > i've just seen too many computer science majors graduate and 1) not > know what a .login is, 2) not write more than 2,000 lines of code > outside of class, 3) etc... > >Depends upon what sort of "computer science" you do. Some prefer to >do theory and some prefer to produce products. Unfortunately most of the people who want to "produce products" still haven't written 2,000 lines of code outside of class... and the projects they've done in class were often never really completed. If I were a cs prof I'd have students writing public domain software that would really got used and tested, or gnuware... but I'm not a cs prof. Fortunately, lack of programming skills among CS majors just expands the pool of people who want to hire me as a consultant, despite the large number of CS majors that hang around most universities. Obligatory hacking story: I've worked on IRC. 'nuff said. Or, do you know how easy it is to crash a VAX while trying to get into device driver buffers in kernel mode? Sheesh. Greg Lindahl gl8f@virginia.edu Astrophysicists for Choice.