On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:46:59PM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: > It is relatively easy to graduate from BYU without any real experience. > They take the department name seriously: Computer _Science_. Not > Software Engineering. Not Computer Programming. > > Maybe BYU is a good place to prepare for graduate school if you take the > time get to know your professors. I don't know. Nearly everything I know > and use now as a programmer and trainer, I learned while avoiding my > homework. > > Don't get me wrong, there are some good professors and useful classes in > the BYU CS program, but not nearly so many as there should be. I won't > pretend to know the complete solution, but in part BYU would benefit > from more professors with industry experience. >
I'm actually graduating in CS in April from BYU. These days there are a few ways to graduate, some are heavy in the theory and some are more practical. They still take CS as a Science. If you want server administration you go to the IT department. However, next fall a number of new courses will be finalized. They're actually doing a major overhaul of the required core classes and adding a few to make it a little more of a software engineering mix. To give you an idea, I did the following core classes: 4 architecture (low-level and OS) courses. 2 general programming (intro and a slightly more advanced one) 5 theory (ranging from ones where you mostly code the concepts, to one with no code at all) The new program core is like so: 2 architecture (basic low-level and OS) 1 web-based programming (build a web-server to web-apps) 2 general programming 1 software engineering 5 theory You still have a number of electives. Depending on your choices you can do a lot of software engineering, or prep yourself for grad school. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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