On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:25:17PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > Whats the best (in your humble opinion) computer science school in Utah?
I'm shocked the UofU hasn't been mentioned yet... BYU from my experience as good as you want it to be. There are a couple great teachers, a half dozen poor teachers and the rest are average (or was-so 5 years ago). I found you got out of it what you put in. I often tell people had I to do it over again I would have gone to the UofU. This is because at times I felt like the teachers at BYU didn't seem to care about being prepared for leasons and much of the assignments were busy work or 10% learning and 90% wasted time. There was one particular class I had worked ahead on an assignment and spent ~20 hours on and found it was impossible and went to the teacher and explained the situation and he denied it until a week later several other students had found the same thing. Now I know these things can happen anywhere if a teacher isn't really prepared -- but I think if you're paying for an education this type of thing shouldn't happen much if ever. This is why I think the UofU may have things "together" a little more. Their CS program is somewhat famous from the early years of DARPA and they've had more time to build it up and probably polish it more. I think the UofU also looks at technology as an important part of the school where at BYU it was "just another degree". I will agree BYU was more theory based, which is good if you can pick up languages quickly. UVSC from what I've heard (so I could be very wrong because it's outdated a few years) was less theory and more application of languages. --Brandon /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
