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From: rgsmeb@abcom.ATT.COM (Michel Behna)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: What is CS?
Message-ID: <569@abcom.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 88 16:58:19 GMT
References: <3686@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
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From article <3686@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, by tlh@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas L. Hausmann):
> In article <439@abcom.ATT.COM>, rgsmeb@abcom.ATT.COM (Michel Behna) writes:
>> From article <3640@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, by tlh@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas L. Hausmann):
>> > In article <336@abcom.ATT.COM>, rgsmeb@abcom.ATT.COM (Michel Behna) writes:
>> >> From article <4807@ecsvax.UUCP>, by hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer):
>> >> > In article <1000@mcgill-vision.UUCP>, mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
> Clearly we are both aware that a university does much more than 
> qualify you to obtain work.  To me this is the key.  A univerisity gives
> you a perspective that the world is more than your job.  A university that
> cuts its liberal education requirements in favor of courses to "prepare
> people for the real world" short-changes the students and defeats its mission.

Good Luck! if you think that you can get a job by just learning a language
and hold it very long! You would stagnate like a swamp.

And who said anything about cutting liberal arts programs. I have a BA in
French Literature and Biology and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science.
All I said is that a little real world influence in a program will do it a
lot more good, not harm!!

I switched to CS because I could not get a job with my BA. How many CS
graduates know how to program an IBM PC? How many know what a LAN is and
how it works? How many understand that tech specs are the only reason many
people buy computers of a particular brand? How many can justify it?

Idealism is a beautiful thing but it does not work as good as realism!

Michel Behna