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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no 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-Thread: f4fd2,3727232787ce671e X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-15 08:44:19 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!out.nntp.be!propagator-dallas!news-in-dallas.newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp From: Ted Dennison References: <9drfcr$du11@news-dxb> Subject: Re: Universities in the US Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:43:50 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:43:51 GMT Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7522 comp.lang.lisp:10091 Date: 2001-05-15T15:43:51+00:00 List-Id: In article <9drfcr$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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com