<div>I thought it was getting normal for large enough places to have multiple departments? I expect EE to teach C, CIS to teach LISP, or whatever is cutting edge in the theory of artificial linguistics, and the business school to teach COBOL and VisualBASIC.
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<div>But maybe I'm spoiled by OSU. They have more computing departments than I can count (literally, it's nondenumerable. Really remarkable place)</div>
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<div>You know when they first starting talking about a GRE Advanced Test in computing, all of us (that I know, but I was in math) were flabbergasted at the thought of defining a curiculum. That still flabbergasts me. I don't envy anyone that job.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert G. Brown</b> <<a href="mailto:rgb@phy.duke.edu">rgb@phy.duke.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, David Mathog wrote:<br><br>>> Nobody knows why CPS departments no longer teach students
<br>>> to code in C (and instead teach a bizarre mix of C++, java, lisp, and<br>>> god-knows-what else first.<br>><br>> I know, I know! The folks who teach computer science consider<br>> functional languages like C and Fortran to be both uninteresting and old
<br>> fashioned. They also tend not to use those languages in their research,<br>> which is often on esoteric subjects having little to do with "crunching<br>> these numbers as fast as possible with as much accuracy as possible."
<br>> They think these sorts of languages, along with God forbid, assembly<br>> language, should be taught in trade schools and not the CS department.<br>> This causes endless battles and the occasional undergraduate revolt,
<br>> because all of those Engineering, Physics, and etc. students paying<br>> 35000 dollars a year to the University don't want to also attend a<br>> trade school, and they need and want to learn how to write fast
<br>> efficient code in exactly those languages that the CS types don't<br>> want to teach.<br>><br>> Regards,<br><br>Y'know, I think that somehow, amazingly, you are so absolutely dead on<br>correct that it's kind of scary. So I'm really, really wrong. Somebody
<br>DOES know. You do! I'm getting little chills.<br><br>If only I could think of who to send this to in our computer science<br>department. If only I thought it would make a damn bit of difference if<br>I did.<br>
<br>Of course one would think that at least a few bodies in the CPS<br>department would be on this list, wouldn't you? At least if you weren't<br>right...<br><br>(Oh damn, now I'm in trouble. In a public forum yet...:-)
<br><br>(Besides, there might be a couple of CPS faculty on the list. Might be.<br>I can think of a couple. But they probably code in C.)<br><br> rgb<br><br>><br>> David Mathog<br>> <a href="mailto:mathog@caltech.edu">
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