On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Chris Alvarez wrote:
You need to keep one thing in mind though: 300 and 400 level classes are not about teaching a language or how to program(you're supposed to know how to program by then). Those classes are about teaching concepts in diverse areas of computer science rather than teach you how to do this in C, then this other thing in perl, and this other thing in python.
Digression #1: Tell that to the professor who is having students use C# and Microsoft Access (?!?!) for CS 312.
Digression #2: My point was that it has become nearly impossible to use a different language for some projects, since 90% of the code is given to you, and you're left to implement the remaining 10%. Even if using, say, Ruby or Python would allow you to write the whole thing in a third of the time, it still would take longer than just doing the 10% in the assigned language.
~ ross
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