into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Sunday 12 November 2006
7:29 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Monday 13 November 2006 01:23, John Andersen wrote:
> > Its already been decided. Virtually every university world wide
> > has yanked computers, programming, and systems analysis out of
> > math departments and created Computer Science departments.
> >
> > By and large they were forced to do this by funding reasons, when
> > business communities started demanding IT workers that were
> > attuned to getting the business done rather than proving some obscure
> > theorem.
>
> This differs from university to university. At my university, the
> department I was in, known as computer science ('datalogi' in Swedish)
> dealt with theoretical stuff, understanding algorithmic theory,
> analysing and proving stuff
>
> There were other departments, one I remember was called Informatics,
> which were more into the practical results and took shortcuts across
> the more theoretical aspects
>
> But I know other places around there which packed everything into the
> Comp. Sci. department, both the theoretical and the "instant business
> programmer" type courses
And yet you came out of Uni able to understand non-Uni people when they
had questions and problems w/ computers ( especially, but I suspect not
limited to SuSE , or Suse , as it now is called) . You were able to
assist many of us idiots on the lists w/ answers that were clear and
helpful. Your Uni must have a good grasp on the practical , or perhaps
it's just the way you are. ;)
However, once computers generally became ubiquitous in business, the hurry
up and teach em just enough to get the cheques cut and inventory tracked
efficiently , probably isn't all that bad an idea. While theory and deep
learning of computer history vs howto do whatever needs done, is a
diversion which may never be resolved, it seems to me business will
always opt for the howto folks every time.
Unless it's some of the companies who do development of future systems.
Nano tubes or nano bots vs who knows what blue sky thing they are
dreaming up. They all seem to live in a different world and a different
time frame than most of the rest of us.. ;)
As for me, I want an R2D2 type bot that will follow me around and keep
track of where I left my Pepsi.. then I could even be happy w/ an older
computer. Not very happy, but happy nonetheless. <VBG>
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j
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