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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3727232787ce671e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-16 02:02:07 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!coop.net!newsfeed1.global.lmco.com!svlnews.lmms.lmco.com!news1.lmtas.lmco.com!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Universities in the US Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:12:01 -0500 Organization: LM Aeronautics Message-ID: <3B015551.92851D3@lmtas.lmco.com> References: <9drfcr$du11@news-dxb> NNTP-Posting-Host: CAA261517.lmtas.lmco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; LMTAS} (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7551 Date: 2001-05-15T11:12:01-05:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <9drfcr$du11@news-dxb>, Faisal Halim says... > >So I would like to know which Unis in New York teach CS in a way that is > >more beneficial for the students, teach languages in the context of the job > >required, and at the same time are affordable. > > Well, two of the principles behind the GNU Ada compiler are professors at NYU. I > don't know what they teach their CS1 students, but I suspect there are courses > there that use Ada. > > Despite all the heat here about the "best" language, the really important thing > is that you get exposed to *multiple* languages during your time as a student. > Languages come and go. Except for Fortran, which will live indefinitely, apparently. > You need to learn how to *learn* a new language. A good > CS program will do that for you, so the most important thing for a prospective > student is to just find a good CS program. > > There is *much* more to being a good software engineer than just knowing the > proper programming language(s). A good CS program should give you the > oppertunity to learn that other stuff as well. > > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com