Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 19:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <5186efb3$0$32118$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 19:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="023384c1aa284d1305afa0f48d0dff5a"; logging-data="5363"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+NCOe1pdq5lilDnjeMBClhr0a6F+zau6s=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cok/6zBRjjPCy/JSOtfGV68vTkg= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:23863 On Sun, 05 May 2013 19:48:00 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > First, even the best universities can have some teachers that are not so > good. > Yes. > Second, I believe that Harvard is more known for Law, Medicine, > Business, Economics than for IT. > A surprising number of the early computers were developed at Harvard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I > Third, some say that the actual education (at bachelor and masters level > - PhD level may be different) is not that much better at the famous > universities than at lesser know universities and that the benefits of > joining is more about the prestige and the connections one get. As I > have never seen the inside of an American university, then I can not say > if it is true or not. > Well, I sincerely hope all American computing degrees have vastly improved since the mid '70s. I was working with a guy with a BS in computer science from one of the lesser NYC schools. He was a good bright guy, really useful and very capable of learning on the job and *thinking*. Just as well, too because it turned out that his degree course had covered little more than COBOL programming and a bit of elementary systems analysis. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |