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- From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Advanced Degrees in OOP
- Message-ID: <MOSS.92Sep1113610@ibis.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 15:36:10 GMT
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- In-reply-to: paul@svl.cdc.com's message of 1 Sep 92 05:39:23 GMT
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- >>>>> On 1 Sep 92 05:39:23 GMT, paul@svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller) said:
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- Paul> I would like to get an advanced degree in CS with an emphasis in
- Paul> OOP.
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- As a CS educator in a dept that grants MS and PhD degrees, I think this is too
- narrow a focus for a degree. I can see focusing on "theory", or "AI", or
- "architecture", or ..., but what you seem to be aiming at I would call
- "software engineering", and I would hope you'd be educated to a lot more than
- (a) OO approaches and (b) programming. After all this is supposed to be
- computer *science*, not something like Evelyn Wood speed reading. That is, we
- are trying to teach something more borad and longlasting than the latest fad.
- (Which doesn't mean that we should not respond to advances in the state of the
- art!).
-
- Clearly you hit a kind of "hot button" here!
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