Re: Are 'best' universities being targeted

[iris.mbvlab.wpafb.af.mil!blackbird.afit.af.mil!kmathias@uunet.uu.net (Ka rl S Mathias)]

tannen@tigger.geg.mot.com (David Tannen) writes:

>I would like to see the a CS program require the following areas:
>	Calc I & II (maybe III) 
>	A minor in Science or Business
>	Data Structures
>	OS Theory
>	2 Intro EE classes taught by & out of the EE dept. where
>		you build some circuits in the labs. (I found them 
>		very useful)
>	3 Digital Design classes where you have to build some 
>		fairly complex digital circuits.
>	Systems programming (Lots of Assembler/C)
>	Language comparison class
>	Systems Analysis & Design 
>		(SA/SD and OOA/OOD, plus all projects should be team
>		 projects)
>	Algorithms
>	Real-Time

This sounds like the perfect course structure for a Computer Engineering
degree (lots of hardware/assembly).  It hardly seems appropriate for
general software development where hardware platforms should NOT be
the issue.  This type of study would influence CS students to code for
specific platforms, rather than writing code that would work on any
platform.  IMHO, one or two hardware courses are sufficient.


Capt Karl Mathias                                  kmathias@afit.af.mil
Graduate Student, Air Force Institute of Technology
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