On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:23:52PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
> Joseph, I don't know what years you tested this... I went thru UO's BS in
> Java, but we did have to produce LISP, Scheme, ML, MIPS, etc.
> However, I met business dual-majors who found ways to slip through without
> producing any code at all, which I find most telling.
>
> Does this all fit with your experience at UO, or did I "work too hard"? ;)
You probably worked too hard. It's possible to go through the UO program
without ever using anything like LISP/Scheme from what I can tell. I'm
not an active participant in the UO CS programs, but I've met one too many
seniors who haven't got two neurons to rub together to have any faith in
the BS degree.
Were I still in the field, I would probably still use the same test: Here
is a compiler. You have 30 minutes. Produce a working integer sort and
binary search. If you can do that, you can be trained to do something
useful. If you cannot, go back to school.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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