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From: john@nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract,comp.edu
Subject: Re: Qualified? or Dreaming?
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Date: 11 Jul 90 23:30:06 GMT
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| I went to a highly rated (top 5) university, yet all of the real
| fundamentals were only found in electives.  It really surprised me
| that you could get a BSCS without learning about compilers or operating
| systems.  And more than just a few students missed these fundamentals.
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Is this generally true?  Nevin Liber (nevin@igloo.scum.com)
wrote the above in misc.jobs.contract, on a thread about
whether a college degree is worthwhile.  I cross-posted to
comp.edu because I'd like to know what is required
elsewhere.

At New Mexico Tech, nobody gets a BS in CS without going
through both the compiler class and the OS class; it's been
this way for twenty years.  And these aren't just lecture
classes, either.  Every student implements a whole compiler
and a whole operating system from scratch, working in a team
with one or two other students.
-- 
John Shipman/Computer Science Department/New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 87801
(505)835-5301; john@jupiter.nmt.edu