They are trying to prepare you for what "they believe" businesses want. What will give you the best opportunity to get a job once out of college. When I was in college our teachers sat down with the businesses that came to campus for recruiting and asked "What should we be teaching to suit your needs". The courses taught reflected their needs. The perception in the business world is on things such as (but not limited to): C, C++, COBOL, Graphics, and M$ products.
I think your doing it the right way, on your own. This is how I learned PHP and use it for a majority of our web development. Sincerely, Robert T. Covell President / Owner Rolet Internet Services, LLC Web: www.rolet.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 816.471.1095 Fax: 816.471.3447 24x7: 816.210.7145 -----Original Message----- From: Francesco Gallarotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Computer Science and PHP I am a student in a college in NY state. Here we have several servers and dozens of courses on computer science. No server is PHP ready and no course instructor knows anything about PHP. Why do you think this is happening? I really like PHP and I am using it in my personal website to work with some text files and a small database. Why PHP is so not popular in the computer science teaching area? F.G. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]