Re: Wierd Question
> Definately. Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the BSD
> direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is not
Speaking as a current Berkeley CS student, I feel that UC Berkeley
leans in the direction of Solaris. I have yet to see a BSD workstation
in any of the main computer labs, which is ironic considering its
origins. Most of the programming labs here at Berkeley are stocked
with Sun Rays connected to a Solaris 9 server.
> > Majoring in languages makes no sense to me, unless
> you want to be
> > pigeonholed into one language for the rest of your
> life.
I would second that statement. Here at Berkeley (and I believe at most
universities too), students are taught programming concepts and
theories, rather than actual languages. While the first semester CS
course focuses on Scheme (a Lisp dialect), the goal is to teach
students to think as programmers. After completing the class, students
should be able to transfer their skills to any programming language.
> > > > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver
> > development.
Well, topics like driver development are covered in upper-division CS
and EE courses. I don't think they would serve well as majors, though.
It really narrows down the field of your experience. I'd rather major
as CS with a speciality in driver development than just be a driver
developer.
-Stephen Le
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:03:08 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Asarnow
<reve_etrange@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> 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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