From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,84e44219768a6d78 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Theodore E. Dennison" Subject: Re: Ada95: The Real Job Market and College Life Date: 1996/04/11 Message-ID: <316CFD1E.167EB0E7@escmail.orl.mmc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146911907 references: <00001a73+00002cbb@msn.com> <316BAB5A.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > T.E.D. says > > "As a (proud?) holder of a B.S. degree in computer science from a > CSAB-accredited program, I can tell you I am a TINY minority among > my co-workers. So apparently we don't even expect a CS degree from > a graduating student!" > > If CSAB, then sure, I would expect that. If the CS degree that is > changing. Certainly the financial industry in NYC expects CS degress > from all its new hires. Well, you removed much of the context. All I'm saying is it is silly to argue that the lack of this-that-or-the-other in computer science curricula is somehow damaging an industry that is by-and-large NOT populated by CS graduates, or that lack of instruction in language X will somehow make a CS grad unemployable, when that grad is competing against EE and Math grads. -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |