On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:06:07PM -0600, Scott Paul Robertson wrote: > My understanding is that (even though I don't agree with when and what > class it is it's being implimented in) they want a class to teach you > how to code in the Windows/Microsoft enviroment. ie: C#, Visual Studio > .NET, etc. (Access is the weird part) > > Personally though I know what platform I like to code on, I don't think > all CS students do, and some people are going to end up coding in VS in > C#, etc. So to some degree I can see why it's important to have a class > that exposes the students to this area of development. > > Of course considering what list this is, I'm guessing none of us want to > actually develop on that platform, so it's a fairly pointless class from > that standpoint. Of course, just FYI, mono is in the linux labs, and I > think you can work with access dbs in mono. Just a thought. >
Of course, you have to be careful about which classes are used to teach new environments. CS240, for example, is officially intended to teach the C++ language and the Linux environment. CS312 is officially supposed to teach the basics of algorithm analysis. Even without trying to teach a new language and environment, there's not enough time in a semester to cover everything. But, I'm not from any big eastern schools, so what do I know? :) -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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