[Novalug] Teaching Computers Science

[Angelo Bertolli]

Dan Arico wrote:
> My daughter is thinking about doing a computer science major in college. We've 
> been looking over a lot of schools and I'm noticing a certain lack of 
> consistency in the way it's taught.
>
> Some schools have CS as a separate major, while others include it under math 
> or engineering. A few courses appear to be consistent from school to school, 
> but the programming languages vary wildly.
>
> I've found several schools that use Visual Basic. Others use Pascal. Most 
> include C/C++. A few include assembler, but most do not. I've even found one 
> that teaches COBOL.
>
> Anyone have some thoughts about what ought to be included?
>   

The best spot check I can advise for a good CS program is to see if they 
have some kind of compiler theory class in which the students actually 
make their own compiler.

Angelo