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- From: kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders )
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- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:35:43 GMT
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- In article <BtwJGC.1F1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
- <zweben@linguine.cis.ohio-state.edu (Stu Zweben) writes:
- <
- <>This is one of the main reasons that the Computing Sciences Accreditation
- <>Board was formed by ACM and IEEE-CS in the mid-80s. Programs that are
- <>accredited through CSAB must require 2/5 of a year of science (four courses,
- <>including the equivalent of a two-semester sequence in a lab science for
- <>science majors, and ...
- <
- < I do not see why somebody intending to programming work, even in a real
- <world setting, needs two semesters of lab science.
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- I tend to agree ;-), since I'll be graduating soon from one of these
- accredited schools and had to take 'em.
-
- - Kyle
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