Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!scott From: scott@opus.UUCP (Scott Wiesner) Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: Re: CS students who aren't exposed to U*X Message-ID: <804@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Sep-84 11:11:57 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.804 Posted: Wed Sep 12 11:11:57 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 01:53:53 EDT References: <519@ames.UUCP> <800@opus.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 27 Well, at Purdue, you can't just be a CS student. Purdue has four options within the CS major: General -- aimed at those going on to grad school Opsys and Prog Langs -- probably better than the above Scientific -- heavily oriented toward math (Stat, etc) Information Systems -- the option you're flaming about I was in the Opsys option. As an undergrad, I had theory, compiler, and operating system courses. Those who were in the info systems option took Cobol and Database courses. We all started with the same four course base (Mostly Pascal programming) but then branched out. I see two possible reasons for your problem. First, the student screwed up in his/her course selection. Given his background, he never should have been interviewing for the kind of job he apparently got. Second, whoever hired him didn't look at his school record. (more on this below) Now that you've got these people, be nice to them. They wanted to work at your company, or they wouldn't have taken the job. Assume they're bright, and that they want to learn all these things they don't know. Whoever was responsible for hiring them must have seen a lot of potential in these people, or they wouldn't be there in the first place. -- Scott Wiesner {allegra, ucbvax, cornell}!nbires!scott