Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>Follow the money and what do you find? A lot of 4-year institutions
*>in the US trying to attract 18 year olds who want to Make Money
*>Fast (tm) when they drop out or graduate. For that they want a
*>curriculum in the mainstream languages, tools, and software
*>that are used in the industry at large. Today, that means Java, Java,
*>C and Java. Maybe a little bit of UML or SQL on top.
I don't know if it's money driving that or that scheme and lisp weren't
exciting anymore, but even the WU CS department broke down a few years ago
and started teaching a course in Java after years of resisting. Most of
the courses are theory, not programming.
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~sg/advising/jun98-ugrad-catalog.html#bscs
*>Does this describe curricula at Rice, MIT, or UofP? No.
Or WU.
*>Is it common in more mainstream, more pragmatic, less academically
*>focused curricula? Yes.
Give an explicit example. Are you talking about Community Colleges or
what?
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