Re: Wierd Question
Definately. Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the BSD
direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is not
true of every UC. I hear that Davis uses a lot of
Solaris and Linux machines). I know from friends that
the City College in San Francisco also uses *nix...my
impression from talking to various people around the
Bay Area is that every educational institute here uses
*nix pretty heavily.
Not my high school, though. Luckily, the computers
all let you boot from the CDROM, so the Knoppix disc I
carry in my backpack comes in handy.
Daniel
--- Chris Metcalf <chrismetcalf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > monique
> >
> >
> >
> >
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