Quoting Rommel P Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just some info on UPD's CS programme. > > UPD CS programme is not employment-oriented. Meaning, we do not teach our students > to be > marketable. Our students get more theoretical computer sciences and mathematics. > This is what > companies are often telling us -- teach Visual Basic since it is popular in > companies. Teach this > and that. Although we do realize that there are specific applications that may make > our students > more marketable, we do not, however concentrate on specific products (software). > this is problem we get at the department too. companies tell use that we need this and we need that. therefore, in order to solve the problem, we offer a ton of commericially sought after electives. here students can pick the elective they want. if they want to they can get commercially viable classes or "ivory tower" research oriented classes. of course, we all know students take the path of least resistance opting to take the commercial viable classes. > UPD CS students do not perform well in contests - as compared to the previous years. > The quality > of the students is declining - thanks to the primary and secondary education that > they're > getting. A lot of students are lazy! Add this to the fact that some teachers often > spoon-feed > their students or worse [regurgitated!]. Students do NOT have the discipline. [and > yes, the CS > department does not train students for contests - it is up to our students to train > themselves. > The CS department supports them by providing them the facilities during training, > paying for > application fees, etc.] > the comment about primary and secondary education is so true. again, this was pointed out in doc mana's lament earlier. maybe major universities must aim to improve secondary education some how? outreach?
> UPD CS is geared towards producing computer scientists -- more of the > research-oriented type. > ;-) > UPD CS use Open Source tools. Although UPD CS is a member of the MSDN, it does not > use Visual > Studio in any of its programming. Elementary programming use Turbo C++ on the PC or > vi/pico on > Linux/Solaris. [sorry, Sacha, not that many use emacs - but I use Apple eMac, does > that count? > hehehe] > > UPD CS students are required to learn LaTeX. The students submit their final year > special project > report on LaTeX. Presentations are done in PDF or OpenOffice.org Impress. > you should see our PS/CE majors struggling to submit their "Classical Mechanics" problem sets in PostScript (with LaTeX Source)! it is quite a sight. of course, the students come back to us and say that the rendering of the fonts and the equation are definitely prettier than is converntional WYSIWG word processors. > See -- UPD CS does not conform to what is popular. hehehe... > of course, this is because fads come and go. ----------------------------------------------- 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
