hmmm. if we want to make our CS programs more relevant to the needs of the industry why not teach COBOL, CICS and other legacy stuff.
what do you think? Quoting "Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 13 November 2003 12:17 am, Brian Baquiran wrote: > > I'd definitely be the most hated CS teacher on campus. I'd use SICP and > > Knuth as textbooks, teach the basics in Scheme and/or MIXAL, require TeX > > documentation (like ADMU's Ps/CE is doing now) and all projects would be > > solo or XP-style pair programming. No exceptions. > > As a student and a CS enthusiast, I don't see anything wrong with that at all. > :) Bring it on. (Although, you might want to reconsider those textbook specs. > The Art of Computer Programming set is a bit pricey.) I'd also appreciate > getting some XP experience -- the development paradigm, that is. > > I believe that a balanced curriculum of theory and practical CS (engineering, > industry technologies, and such) should be implemented. A dillemma I've > expressed on our school mailing lists is the problem of the Ateneo curriculum > -- too many humanities classes, little actual CS, too few electives, few of > which actually cater to actually concepts useful to the industry (desktop > publishing?). I really believe in the Ateneo's teaching facilities, the > faculty, and the CS community, but there's a lot that can be done. > > > That ought to weed out the weak and unworthy. Academic Darwinism! > > Good point, and I've gone far along that thread of thinking as well, but from > what I've seen, a lot of people go into CS for reasons other than actual > education and excellence -- that is, career options (as they say). Problem > is, CS is something one has to love to appreciate, and these people tend to > take a great deal of this education for granted. But you can't really blame > them, I guess... I really don't know. > > -- > Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas > Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) > III BSCS, Ateneo de Manila University > > Emacs definition of the day: EMACS MACRO ACTED CREDO SODOM > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > ----------------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Campus Network Group (AteneoCNG) email : wyu at ateneo dot edu web : http://CNG.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/ phone : +63(2)4266001-4186 GPG : http://CNG.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/wyy.pgp -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
