Re: Wierd Question
I agree. Better to go to a university that gives you a good solid
foundation in computer science and then to specialize later on.
If you want to learn about *nix programming, why not pick a university
whose courses show loyalty towards working on *nix platforms? At my
alma mater (the University of Michigan), they started us off from the
first year programming on Solaris and every Intel machine in the labs
dual-booted with Linux. Its certainly a lot better than a school that
only teaches you programming in MS VC++.
Chris M.
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:23:45 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama
<spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote:
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> On 2004-06-23, Cecil penned:
> > I'm headed back to school. But I had a thought after I considered why
> > I wanted to go back to school. It would be totally cool if there was
> > some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6 year school, where you
> > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver development. Or game
> > programming. Or a specific language. Major in C++, and minor in
> > assembly. Things like that. Major in a scripting language. Bash major,
> > Perl minor. Am I just nuts or does this excite anyone else? Does it
> > even exist? If it did, I'd go there, and not back to college.
>
> Majoring in languages makes no sense to me, unless you want to be
> pigeonholed into one language for the rest of your life. Learn
> concepts, not languages.
>
> Driver development, game programming, etc, would be great -- as
> continued education programs, like a master's. You have to learn how to
> design and code software before these kinds of courses will do any good.
>
> Just my opinion, since you asked.
>
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