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From: finnegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Greg Finnegan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The programming CULT
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.220548.22689@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 6 Aug 90 22:05:48 GMT
References: <90206.152308GROSSPA@QUCDN.BITNET> <C77$#Z%@rpi.edu> <3726@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: finnegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Greg Finnegan)
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In article <3726@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>	My pet peeve about most CS curricula is that they train people to
>be computer scientists, not professional software engineers; I am yet to
>see a course of study which provides emphasis on the design and implementation
>of production code.

Try the Univ. of CA, Irvine (I'm allowed to plug my alma).  A couple years
ago they were cranking out professional-ready Mac programmers left and
right (I think there are still a handful at Claris, a bunch at Apple and
at a few smaller software houses).  I don't know if they are still
teaching Mac programming principles now, but the guys that left during
that time were willing, and more importantly, ready for commercial
quality software projects (regardless of their "traditional" CS background).

>
>	I started writing Mac code using Macintosh Pascal on a 512K
>machine with two 400K floppy drives. Little did I know that I'd grow
>up to do a version of Macintosh Pascal, and use a Mac II to do it...
>
>R.

Boy, you had it easy! [In old croney accent] I remember when all I had
was a 128K Mac running MacTerminal hooked up to a UNIX box at 300 baud
and using SUMEX C :-)

Greg.
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