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From: huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang)
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Subject: Re: early comp sci courses
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Date: 24 Mar 89 14:59:16 GMT
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In article <9139@claris.com> krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson) writes:
>>>From:         David Douthitt
>>>
>>>Where I'm going to school, Programming I (ONE) is Assembler.  THEN in
>>>Programming II you get to learn COBOL... 
>
>At Rice the current curriculum is two semesters of Pascal, one semester
>combined C/68000 assembly, one semester of Modula-2, in that order.  That's
>JUST the programming classes. 

At Harvard, the two introductory computer courses (each one semester) teach
Pascal and then LISP/68000 assembly/C.  The latter course, "Systems
Programming," has as a final project the writing of a LISP interpreter.

After you get through these, there are no more required language courses.
DEFINITELY no COBOL. You can go on and take classes in AI, operating systems, 
compilers,...


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   Howard C. Huang
   Wigglesworth B-12
   Harvard College
   Cambridge, MA 02138

   huang@husc4.harvard.edu
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