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From: JCA@psuvm.BITNET
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Subject: Re: Exams vs. Programming Assignments
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 11:03:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 11:03:27 1985
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>In article <823@dataio.Dataio.UUCP> bjorn@dataio.UUCP (Bjorn Benson) writes:
>>Computer Science is Algorithms and Theory.
>>Engineering is Programming (and a bit more).
>>
>
>Hah! If a
>computer scientist'' can graduate without being able
>to write a well-designed, well-coded programs (and many do), what
>is the point?  The language of and reason for computer science is
>programming -- and computer scientists who can't write good programs
>are as useless as English teachers who can't write an proper and
>grammatical term paper.
>
>>Grad School is for the best students, the ones who can think, not
>>(necessarily) the ones who can program.
>>
>>                                       Bjorn Benson
>
>
>--
>
>                        Charlie Martin
>                        (...mcnc!duke!crm)
     
I quite agree!  Why do computer science graduates expect employeers to believe
they can program with a degree in Computer Science?
     
Sounds like Computer Engineering really is the way to go.
     
Jeffery Almoney
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(814)863-0422
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