"Chad J" <chadjoan@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote in message news:jffcaj$2bug$1...@digitalmars.com... > > I don't think American colleges teach Computer Science/Engineering very > well at all. My physics degree was an Engineering Physics degree and thus > had an engineering "emphasis" which I filled with some CS courses, mostly > because they'd bring up my grades after the physics classes. A few of > them were pretty legit, but then OSU insisted on teaching this RESOLVE > stuff. Now, I'm not going to make the argument that it's bad because no > one uses that in the workplace. I'm down with using an obscure > programming language for pedagogy as long as there is a reason. But what > RESOLVE is... they want it to be reusable code, but obviously they don't > take DRY seriously, because they make you duplicate code all over the > place. Duplicate code is not reusable or maintainable. That is my > biggest complaint with it, and it soured my opinion of the whole thing for > the entire time. Oh, and they also liked to invent terminology for things > that already had prior terminology, which is dumb. There are more > complaints, but I'll stop there. >
I have a friend who went through OSU's CS program and I remember him complaining about Resolve, too. But I dunno, I've visited OSU and I still think it's more of a football franchise slash commercial real estate developer than a school... 'Course, considering what I think of schools, that may not be much of a complaint ;) > > So college wasn't all that bad to me. They still need to change the > funding model here in the states though. That shit is broken as fuck. What are you talking about? It works great as long as your family's not middle-class, or if you're female, or if you're not caucasian...And that's ok for middle-class white males, since we apperently get everything we could ever desire handed to us on a silver platter just for being white males...I mean, show of hands, how many of the white males here got their "Set for life, because you're a white male" care package? See. Everybody.