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From: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper )
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: CS students who aren't exposed to U*X
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Date: Wed, 12-Sep-84 10:01:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 12 10:01:22 1984
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>I cannot believe it.  My Branch of my organization just hired three
>people in a row with CS degrees (Master's as well as BS) but without any
>exposure to U*X!  The first had Univac expierence, the second (with a Master's)
>has IBM experience, and the third, I haven't asked yet.  I met a
>CS masters student in LA several years ago who had not exposure to compilers,
>operating systems (much less U*X), or any language other than FORTRAN or COBOL.

>Is our community so closed that major portions are just gapping holes?
>I know the net does not reach Japan [A friend administers several sites in
>Korea].

>--eugene miya
 
You'll be interested in:  "New Computer-Science Accrediting Plan is
Assailed by Liberal-Arts Educators," in The Chronicle of Higher
Education, July 13, 1984, vol XXVIII #16 which describes the plans of
IEEE and ACM jointly to accredit CS curricula in order to remove
deficiencies of which you speak.  Unfortunately, many CS departments
reside in schools of Arts & Science (rather than of Engineering) within
their universities and A&S tend to limit more strictly the number of
courses one takes in ones major.  Some incredible academic abuses are
described (such as the CS curriculum that offers a BA in CS while having
only 2 CS courses:  FORTRAN and COBOL!).

Brint