Re: Universities in the US

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

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. 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.

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