Regardless of how everybody feels about this topic, the explanation itself bothers me:
"Object-oriented programming is eliminated entirely from the introductory curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum." It looks like whoever made that decision has a pretty big chip on their shoulder and it's pretty clear from that sentence alone that students going to his/her class will get a pretty incomplete and biased picture. Exactly the opposite of what a renowned university such as CMU is expected to provide. -- Cédric On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Alan Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22/03/2011 1:02 PM, mP wrote: > >> The simple explaination being that most professors in universities, cant >> get a real job so most dont really know what they are talking about. >> > > I am sure its nothing to do with job satification of teaching, helping the > next generation to get skills that will enable them to get a good life, more > flexible work hours, to be paid to look into new technologies to determine > their relevance to course materials, to have the possibility of doing funded > research, then having a pool of bright students you can use to progress your > research interests where the only requirement is to make sure they learn > something along the way, .... ;-) > > I used to work at a university - most of the fellow professors did not > *want* to get a "real" job as you put it. They got paid less, but had a lot > more fun and a lot less stress! Its not clear to me yet who is "smarter" > here. > > Just my 2c worth. > Alan > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
