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From: cd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Clarence K. Din)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Computer Science: where it belongs
Message-ID: <16251@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 01:54:06 EST
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.16251
Posted: Fri Nov 20 01:54:06 1987
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Reply-To: cd@bu-cs.UUCP (Clarence K. Din)
Organization: Boston Univ. CS Dept.
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In article <421@uni2.bcm.tmc.edu> rick@svedberg.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) writes:

>Quit true. One of the worst failings I have found with recent CS graduates 
>it their total lack of exposure to maintenance of large systems. They have
>never really seen a large system. (Such is usually found on most mainframe
>systems.) They really don't seem to grasp the concepts required to maintain
>this type of system as well as understanding the requirements for modifying 
>software projects. They also have never really been exposed to a variety of
>different software systems. This seems to be especially true of CS departments
>which teach ONLY Unix.

     We, at Boston University have two software engineering courses that
DO have exposure to large systems.  A current project in CS 511, our
Software Engineering course, using UNIX, is an implementation of Hypertext.
As its instructor describes, "this is really a course on management, and
for many of you, this may be your first exposure to management skills."

     So there ARE CS programs which expose CS people to large systems.  Anyone
out there with similar thoughts?

     Clarence K. Din

     cd@bu-cs.buacca.bu.edu