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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: The sin of MicroSoft
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.181146.1122@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 18:11:46 PST
- References: <cfI29cm00iUz00yONH@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <cfI29cm00iUz00yONH@andrew.cmu.edu>, sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
- > Ok, I think that maybe you guys aren't up on the current state of
- > Computer Science Undergraduate Studies. I'm a third year student in
- > computer science here at CMU, and this is what I've been through so far:
- > [...]
- > Ok, here come the clinchers. 15-211 was basically an introduction to
- > data structures class, with a little more thrown in.
- > [...]
- > 15-212 doesn't sound so bad, except for the same clincher that came with
- > 15-211, we're using Scheme, BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO TEACH IT TO YOU.
- > (Scheme is a dialect of Lisp) By the end of this course we wrote a
- > metacircular evaluator. What this is, is a program that says "Implement
- > Scheme in Scheme" without using the (eval '...') expression. We also
- > covered completeness, and all that stuff (what does 'NP' stand for
- > again?)
- >
- > Artificial intelligence was pure theory. We had one progrmming
- > assignment in Lisp, which was to re-write the huristic function for
- > Tic-Tac-Toe so that it was better than it currently was. This
- > assignment was VERY early in the course, and I think because no one knew
- > Lisp (we had all learned Scheme) he dropped the rest of the programming
- > assignments. We did just about everything in AI problem solving thats
- > been done. Pure theory.
- >
- > 15-462: Computer graphics. Now, assuming that you've already learned
- > everything yourself, we're going to let you use what you've learned.
- > "Using any computer and any programming language, and any operating
- > system you wish, implement the following...." 2D transformations, 3D
- > trans., 3D projections, Ray-tracers, particle systems, splines,....must
- > I go on?
- >
- > Please, give us more credit than you are. Things have changed a lot in
- > the last few years.
-
- Sounds to me as though they've stayed pretty much the same. Which is to say,
- pretty much irrelevant.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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