On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Scott Paul Robertson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:34:51PM -0600, Ross Werner wrote:Digression #1: Tell that to the professor who is having students use C# and Microsoft Access (?!?!) for CS 312.
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)
Oh, don't get me wrong--I have no problem with the CS department wanting to teach C# and .NET. I think that's great--heck, right now I wish I knew C# and .NET for my job, but I don't. (Perhaps blasphemy to the UUG, but it's true.)
But my issue was in relation to the "higher-level CS classes are meant to teach concepts and principles, not programming languages" which I think is totally accurate, which is why I'm bizarrified that in a class like CS312 they would throw a completely new programming language and programming environment at you. To me that's like learning a new language like Python for CS428--what does it have to do with the class topic?!?!
~ ross
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