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From: djl@fisher.UUCP (Dan Levin  N6BZA )
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: C.S. Dept. woes
Message-ID: <118@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Apr-84 01:41:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 18 01:41:26 1984
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Well, I must admit that I have not found this dichotomy here at
P.U.

The vast majority of the CS courses (I am tempted to put 'both of them'
here!), provide a good mix of practical and theoretical techniques.
Once you get past the 'let's learn pascal' type stuff, most of
the rest of the classes consist of lectures dealing with algorithms
and theory, backed up by programming assignments that require
application of the stuff you learned in class.  A classic 
example is the OS course, where the theories of dead-lock
avoidance and such are discussed, and then you write a monitor
( sort of the middle third of an OS) in which you manage
procs and memory.

Then again, maybe I am just a deluded hack, since I am majoring
in Stats., and not EECS!

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			***dan

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