Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ben Bacarisse Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: What do they teach in school today? Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:56:25 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <874mjta7s6.fsf@bsb.me.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="017616aa25f81ec581c44d76d61ba2f3"; logging-data="29191"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+0ycl41rFWpyPsj8LwpoNDITY1aNykuxA=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:kkO9SgbZsNogJWcJfDP4ge6s0m0= sha1:kjqvSpACz7RMLw0EwADh13jYFBo= X-BSB-Auth: 1.5ac7c2ca97ec494b7af8.20150820235625BST.874mjta7s6.fsf@bsb.me.uk Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:5641 "J. Clarke" writes: > I was talking to a recent computer science graduate today. He had never > seen C, never seen Fortran, had no notion of a shell script or batch > file, had never heard of ActiveX or .net or gcc. > > So what does somebody spend four years doing in a modern university > computer science program? Why didn't you ask him? It looks like you missed the perfect opportunist to find out -- then you could tell me! (I can't help -- I've been out of the game for years.) But most Universities have course details online so I can't think it would bee too hard to find out for a few selected institutions. -- Ben.