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This is just rumor, but I've heard it said that BYU's CS is heavy on the code and light on the theory compared with other universities, and in fact does its share of code-monkey cranking. I guess it's all relative... * Derek Davis [Thu, 3 Apr 2003 at 13:05 -0700] <quote> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:27:34AM -0700, Tim Blalock said: > > On another note, I may stir up a hornet's nest, but I just spent the > > last 15 minutes listening to a UVSC student tell me that the UVSC > > computer science department is more advanced and harder than BYU's. I > > personally tend to disagree, since I've never heard of a UVSC class > > that is hard, but maybe I need to get out more. I also think this kid > > I was talking to was off his rocker, since he claimed that BYU didn't > > have a CS department. Funny, I wonder whom I got my degree from? > > Anyway, what does everybody think? BYU vs UVSC >=20 > I had a friend who liked to tell me this as well. He would also say > that the UVSC CS department was nationally ranked, and BYU's wasn't. > Out of curiosity, I searched and never found any rankings that even > mentioned UVSC. With regards to the other comment, of them being better > and harder than us, I looked into it a bit. What I found out is that it > seems that they have Computer Science with a programming emphasis. In > other words, they start out learning Visual Basic (And they have the > nerve to call that Computer Science?) and then Visual C++, etc. They > don't worry about such trivial things as compilers, operating systems, > algorithms, etc. At least not to the same depth that we do. They crank > out programmers (read: code monkeys) while BYU creates Computer > _Scientists_. We're the ones that create the systems that UVSC > graduates code on or with. This is not a slam against UVSC, just a > different goal. To say that their CS major is harder than ours is like > saying that their music program (do they have one?) is harder than our > psychology program. Apples and oranges. At least, that is the way it > seemed to me. Feel free to correct me if you have more info. >=20 > --=20 > Derek M Davis Research Assistant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Formal Verification Lab - PSI > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > "If things seem really under control, you're not going fast enough. > -Mario Andretti </quote> --=20 Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jJnE/JjozeCq1GARAjVsAJ9nlxzqy/zYWHpz59trENhqE6488gCg8woD NscuziwQOQ+0iAgTaHH/qVo= =0OXh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT-- ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
