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From: ee178acg@sdcc7.UUCP (Harry Snyder)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Titles
Message-ID: <278@sdcc7.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 00:01:02 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcc7.278
Posted: Sun Feb 16 00:01:02 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Feb-86 06:04:19 EST
References: <4514@kestrel.ARPA> <487@hoptoad.uucp> <140@ttidcc.UUCP>
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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Summary: Another follow up to a misinformed person.

In article <140@ttidcc.UUCP>, hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:
> 
> Most CS programs seem to concentrate on teaching programming  logic  rather
> than  good  programming  practice.  All  you need to do to pass a course is
> turn in projects that work (i.e.:  They generate the requested output  from
> the  given  input and the overworked instructor hasn't got time to find the
> bugs).  They don't have to be maintainable because they're one-shot efforts
> that get trashed at the end of the course.  This attitude just doesn't make
> it in the real world where 70% of the software lifecycle is maintenance.
> 
> -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
> The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe)
> {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe


I don't know what schools you are talking about, but at UC San Diego
a good portion of our grades on programs is based on
style and documentation. Generating the requested output is usually
worth less than 40%. And I would hardly call a student's compiler
project as merely generating requested output.

Maybe your experience with computer science students is limited to
graduates of "nothing" schools.

				  harry