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- From: hfrg@cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Choi)
- Subject: Re: Advice needed on relevance of Computer Science Classes/Major.
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- Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 03:06:28 GMT
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- In article <1itclaINNch0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> am893@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Hauben) writes:
- >
- >I would like to be able to study and contribute to the new
- >field of computer networking and telecommunications.
- >
- >Is Computer Science a valuable major as an undergraduate
- >student? Or is it at most *training* for a job?
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- Definitely. What we do in Comp Sci is not only study algorithm, theory, and
- ways to make a program better, we consider the architecture (i.e. INTEL
- 80286 and up, Motorola 68000 - 68040, and SPARC & ALPHA), ways to implement
- them and also how to build them (of course it is recommended that if you
- want to design/build chips, go into electrical engineering).
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- [list of courses deleted]
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- >
- >I have already taken Introduction to Computer Science /
- >Programming in the Scheme dialect of Lisp, and a 1-point C
- >programming language course.
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- Lisp is an excellent AI language. It allows the users to "teach"
- the machine to learn. An example would be to build a family tree,
- and use it to search for queries.
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- Many industries rely on AI. Some National Defenses companies look
- for people who know Ada to do some programming work.
- >
- >What I would like to know, from those both currently in the
- >major, and those working outside of academia in the computer
- >industry, is if the computer science major is worthwhile. If
- >it does represent an education and not just a training?
- >
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- Since the field of Comp Sci is an ever expanding course (new
- development almost daily), your education never ceases. You're
- always building on what you've learned. Granted some things may
- never change, but a lot of other things do.
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- Peter Choi
- hfrg@cs.mcgill.ca (132.206.51.9) or pchoi@nyongwa.cam.org
- McGill University, School of Computer Science, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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