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- From: Reg Foulkes
- Subject: Re: Colleges Need to Fix the Bugs in Computer-Science Courses
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:58:56 GMT
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- In article <155tflINNlnk@agate.berkeley.edu> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian
- Harvey) writes:
-
- >I am not convinced that students are well served by any undergraduate
- >engineering degree, including the CS degree. I think undergraduates
- >should have a liberal education. That means they should major in
- >something real, like maybe math or physics, and should take plenty of
- >literature and writing and history and philosophy and psychology on
- >the side. And on top of that, let them take a pre-engineering program
- >similar in spirit to pre-med or pre-law.]
-
- Excellent!
-
- Brian, I've advocated this approach for years. But to my dismay
- many don't believe in this approach. There prime argument is that it is a
- waste of time. And further, people only have a limited amount of
- resources. However, in the long run I believe that this is the best
- approach. Especially if the undergraduate (if he prefers science) takes
- more math and physics. With that type of background the drift into
- a professional science program should be easy.
-
- I don't know about the university system in the USA, but in Canada this is
- very difficult, since the different faculties don't talk to one another.
-
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